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Commvault feature releases never fall short of delivering fun at the cutting edge – if loads of innovation is your definition of fun! Release 2022E is no exception - if you haven't already caught up with the “what’s new” announcement blog, please check that out here. The focus of this article is on HyperScale X – a secure, scale out storage platform for modern data protection needs – and key innovation that Release 2022E unleashed. This is the first in a series of four articles through which we will unpack the latest capabilities, share how they can augment your data protection experience, and how you can leverage the features along with additional pointers for further reading. Let us begin the ride.  Simple, Scalable, and Reliable Deployments  

Hello,is it possible to define a default locale in the output of reports? We have some Commserve with chinese as default. I know I can change it in output, but in most other Commserves default is english.Thanks.Regards,Thomas

1, we have more tag on Azure disk, when I backup Azure VM by Intellisnap, couldn’t see any tags on snapshot. How to inherit Azure disk tag on snapshot? 2, I restored one Azure VM, restore Azure VM inherit tag from source, but Azure Disk didn’t inherit tag from source disk, any chance to inherit automatically?

A closer look at CVMA.log showed me the following error Failed to open Magnetic Config File for writing Mount Path information for Path [/cvault/hua/nfs/xyz_02/dat\Y66R1O_08.08.2022_13.02], ID [136], errCode [13], errorString [Failed to open file /cvault/hua/nfs/xyz_02/dat/Y66R1O_08.08.2022_13.02/CV_MAGNETIC/MountPathConfigs]. Continuing anyway Commserve: 11.26.3MA server: 11.26.3 (Linux with CVLT Ransomware protection enabled)How to fix this issue?  I tried to pause protection and wait some time but after that time I got a new error record at CVMA.log again.  [root@cvault-ma-02 2022.10.25-09:16:38 ][ /opt/commvault/MediaAgent64 ] ./cvsecurity.py pause_protectionOS version CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)2022-10-25 09:16:42,432 - __main__ - INFO - start pause_pr

Hello,Has anyone experience with 1-Touch and Cisco USC blades? I got error in the beginning of second stage after boot it do not found the CDdrive.thanks in advance.regards Juergen

Edge Monitor does not work on MacOS Ventura. Updates expected any time soon?

Hi,One of our customer plans to use an external tool to perform the automatic modification of the root password for their Linux Media Agents. Is there any possible impact of the Commvault Services in those Linux Media Agents if the password is modified by the external tool?Many thanks.Regards,

Hello,I have about ten virtual machines (windows machines), I have to set up virtualization (VMware) on Comcell. Could you send some links related to virtualization setup on Commvault server?Best regards,Elizabeta  

I have a media agent installed on sparc with SunOS 5.11 operating system on it, and it does not have DDB MediaAgent role assigned, thus i cannot create local deduplication database partition. Is there a way to assign a DDB MediaAgent role to this media agent?

Someone on my team wanted to try to add a new Tape Library to the environment using Command Center.  I had never done this in Command Center before, so I watched the user go through the steps.  We found that it had created the library and the storage pools.  But we could not find any way to create barcode patterns or to create another scratch pool from the Command Center.We are an MSP and this is an essential step in being able to use the library.We then tried to create the barcode patterns and other scratch pools from the CommCell Console.  We created the entities but then found we could not associate it to the pool/plan.It appears that the option to change the scratch pool is greyed out in this case.Is it expected that you cannot edit the scratch pool when the library/storage policy/plan is created from the Command Center?  Or are we missing something here?Furthermore I was expecting a much more user-friendly approach to adding tape to the

So this is deployment 3 of 3 this week. And the first two have gone flawless. Pointed out some notes and documentation errors to the Commvault staff as well. However, this 3rd one is giving me grief. I am receiving a Failed to validate cluster please check the cvmanager.log for details.Ok, So - Note that all three nodes are green with Checks for status. So those are fineThe logs - this is where it gets weird. I have checked all three nodes /opt/commvault/logs/cvmanager.log - is blank. Theres nothing is there. I even tried to tailf the log file during the install and it just sits . So there is nothign being written to the logs.Now what? Well i burned like 4 hours trying to solve this so i just blew them away- reimaged all 3 nodes and started over. Here I am- Same things with fresh installs. I checked NTP and date/time is all gtg as well. What else should I be checking? Network is all working- I can hit all IP’s and ssh , iscsi etc is GTG.  

Hi,we have an old Citrix XenServer cluster with 2 VMs.On this cluster there was a Commvault proxy running for backing up the VMs in the cluster.Now it seems that the storage have a problem. Actually rebuild is running but i don’t know if that works.Last backups running fine…..but is it possible to restore a VM without proxy? Filebrowse works fine and i can restore files and folders but not my complete VM.Any ideas how i can restore this VM? Actually the VM backup is on my B2D store.RegardsDennis

Hi, more time when server are fully loaded, when i restore guest file from a vm backup and on restore process i use DOWNLOAD from web console and i have “error” session disconnect.In this situation the web browser not download restored file, but from console i see restore process complete.i suppose that are the timeout of commandcenter session but the file processed are store in a temporary  folder of commserve?Thanks

Hello team Where i can find info about how “last seen loaction” mechanism works?What adapter will check?WHat happen if user enable VPN?

Hello team, this is regarding to article >  Office 365 Deprecation Notice: Basic Authentication  currently there are couple of basic authentication protocols have been disabled and our customer use basic auth and need to identify to which protocol out of list is Commvault use to backup Exchange online  thanks  

I have LTO 7 tapes from another Commcell that I’d like to format and use in our new Commcell. Is it possible to Format / erase these tapes and import them into the new Commcell?

Hello all,I would like to discuss the different options for a CommCell separation:our customer is divided into different business units. Their licenses are currently installed in shared environments (commcell, mediaagents, disk and tape libraries, all shared). NOTE: deduplication is not used and would be enabled after the migration.Each business unit must now have an independent commcell.  So my first option would be asking Commvault to separate the licenses by business unit, perform a fresh install for each new commcell, and configure their respective clients. But old backup data (especially from tape) would remain at the original Commcell, which i must not depend on. Question:How could I move old backup data from the original CommCell to the new ones. This is moving some backup data to a new comcell, some other backup data to another new commcell and so on.Second option would be performing the Commcell MIgration pr

Please confirm whether we have supported CV plugin for vRA/vRO 8.X, I see the information in the URL -  https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/32458_vrealize_automation_support_for_vmware.html refers to vRA 7.X.  

Hi, I made a backup configuration of SAP Hana. But when I start backup I get an error like below. This error persists for a while. But then it starts taking backups. After a while, the last update time of the job I started due to this error is getting longer and the backup does not continue. I think it is related to the codes executed on SAP Hana and unfortunately my company does not have HANA Admin. Has anyone encountered this error?  Regards.Hamza. 

While trying to figure out how to gather BET for charging purposes I noticed that the size on disk as displayed both in Command Center and CommCell console for cloud libraries to be incorrect. I have opened a ticket for it and in particular referred to S3 buckets, but I was wondering it other customers see the same and if it also occurs on libraries using Microsoft Azure Storage or other types/vendors. Please comment in case you see identify the same. I noticed it while running FR26 and FR28 (2022e).

Please your valuable help, as I am trying to install commvault on the following client with the roles of: MediaAgent. FileSystem, File System Core. This client meets all the requirements correctly, but I get the following error: "Error: Failed to install File System Core with error code 0x80070643."I am also attaching the logs for your review.Thank you very much for your help. Blessings.  

long story short story we observe error “The parameter used for the current operation is not supported by the Operating System, OS Drivers or the underlying Hardware” in our environment  It started few months ago and from this time it is more and more extensive. It already “survived” few MR updates First thought that is connected with some backup types but it already spread to ddb backup or index backup ...also exist in FS backup or vmware backup ...Often see tat also inside AUX copies  or in livesync replication  Second thought that mine MA’s OS is guilty so we changed many MA’s from 2012r2 to 2016 or even 2019 ….not help ….also play with many options from OS which not help also Next thought went to base where we store backups which s CIFS shares on Synology (especially that no so long ago we changed OS on them to DSM7 (from previous DSM6) . Here we also checked many things as for example blocking to use SMB3 and use only SMB2

Planning/doing a HW and OS refresh for all CS’s. Best practice for security is to separate IIS from the CommServe if reading latest recommendations correctly. Does the Webserver require an instance of it installed for every CommCell it talks to?I read this thread on the topic but it doesn’t seem to speak to multi-instances.Also, referring to this webserver requirements page, I thought the concept of security was to separate the DB from IIS. That page infers that the DB must be installed on the Webserver???Can you guys clarify A) whether splitting IIS off requires MSSQL locally and B) multi-CommCell’s require separate webserver instances or VMs? 

Hello Commvault,Is there any option to proceed ad-hoc backup for a specific Azure VM?When I try to do this, I see that Commvault starts a backup for all Azure VM’s that are members in the group!So, Im looking a workaround to backup only a specific Azure VM, not all it’s group. Please for your feedback,Nikos

I recently updated v9 to v11 and the next day I got this error “62:224 Failed to get media information for the volume. Failed to mount media with unique ID” and the backup didn’t run as scheduled. I can’t even restore anything.