Commvault Cloud Topics

Hello Commvault Community,We are planning to migrate to the latest Commvault version, which no longer supports V1 indexing. As we prepare for this transition, I would like to gather insights and advice from those who have already gone through this process.Questions:What are the essential steps to ensure a smooth migration from V1 to V2 indexing? What are the critical considerations to keep in mind during the migration? Are there any known issues or pitfalls that we should be aware of? What best practices can you share for managing the migration effectively?Any detailed experiences, tips, or documentation links would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support and guidance!

Hello Community, Let’s say we created an Azure Storage Account with the default "Hot" access tier. What happens if, for this specific Storage Account, we configure it as "Cool" from the Commvault side?  Does the Commvault selection ("Cool") override the Azure setting ("Hot")? Please for your feedback.Best regards,Nikos

Hi All, During backup with the file system agent, even though the jobs are in the completed status, Commvault reports many Failed Folders and Failed Files. The Optimized scan option is currently selected.Interestingly, the logs show that Commvault is trying to access locations that no longer exist physically. After changing to Journal, there were no such problems (there were no failed folders and failed files).After returning to Optimized scan, the problem appeared again.This is version 11.32 with new fixes. Looking for information about the scanning option in the documentation, I understood that Change Journal is used for the NTFS file system and most often when the Optimized scan option is unavailable, or the metadata database created by Optimized scan is corrupted. File Scan Methods for the Windows File System Agenthttps://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/file_scan_methods_fo

We have a customer running 11.32.89 that are protecting VMWare thin-provisioned VMs. We do primary backups with Pure snapshots. The customer informed us that they have Windows Data Deduplication (WDD) running in the VM. I am seeing older articles online around using thin provisioning and WDD that indicates larger consumption of disk because of WDD cleanup behavior. WDD doesn’t dynamically clean up; it cleans once a week. With that behavior, the thin provision VM keeps growing until the clean up happens. During the backups, we're getting horrible dedupe rates in some servers (10%). Along with that behavior, we are seeing Data Analytics (Indexing) of the VM contents taking longer than 24hrs. Finally, the CVLT provided information seems off - in that we show in the "Data on Media" view that Size on Media is at 6.3TB, but data written says 2.5TB. They're asking what's going on with that.I’m thinking the consumption is due to VM protection in that we protect w

Hi,I am wondering if anyone has installed a CommServe with Live Sync on Windows 2025 Core servers ? Theses servers will also need Command Center so all the extras for that will need to be installed on the Windows Core server.  Thanks 

I’m planing to upgrade our Commserve from 11.28 to 11.36. During earlier updates I started the update with Commserve and Commcell Consol. If it succeeded, Media Agents followed one by one. Maybe our 8 MA was updated in two different day. Thereafter, clients followed.But now, in the “Changes in Commvault Platform Release 2024E (11.36)” document I can find that, “You must upgrade all MediaAgents at the same time.” Why is it mandatory?Commserve 11.36 can’t manage MA ‘s on version 11.28? Two MA, one on 11.28, other on 11.36 can’t work together? Not forever, just for a few days.Thanks in advance.

According to the documentation, we should enable the secure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for additional network security with the external domain. Important: This can only be enabled when the external domain is configured to use the secure LDAP. If this protocol is enabled from the CommCell Console, but not configured from the external domain, the feature is not enabled.How Can I check if the external domain is configured to use the secure LDAP?    

Hello, Recently, I have been encountering client certificate errors in my cases. While we can resolve them, I suspect that Commvault introduced some changes regarding client certificates starting from version 11.32. Could there be any insights or information about this issue?

Please help me with one modul that cant be completed although all video already watched. Try to email enablement-help@commvault.com but it blocked. Advanced Configuration - CommCell Console Certification - Advanced Storage Configuration Regards,Iqbal

Dear Team, I am planning to perform an email restore for one of the users from the Compliance Server. I noticed an option during the process—could you please explain what will happen if this option is enabled or disabled?  Regards,Mani D

Is it really not possible to create or manage ad-hoc backup / restore schedules within Command Center? 

Hi all,  Looking at below Microsoft documentation it seems AGP Azure Cool tier offers the same restore performance as AGP Azure Hot tier. Is that correct? "Data in the cool and cold tiers have slightly lower availability, but offer the same high durability, retrieval latency, and throughput characteristics as the hot tier."https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview Is it possible to have auto tiering for Azure AGP from Hot to Cool?

Hi, Is it possible (or is it on the roadmap) to use github app credential during github authentication? As far i understand only personal access key is possible now?  I was told by our github team that using app credentials is a good practice and allow us to use higher API limits.  Thanks.  

We are trying to back up a two-node MongoDB cluster. The discovery of nodes is successful and we are using the Nimble snap engine. After triggering the backup, we are able to see the snapshot being created on the storage. However, Commvault is unable to mount the snapshot to the host, due to the error mentioned. We tried mounting the snapshot manually to the host, but it failed with the same error. The iSCSI service on the nodes is active. -- “Failed to mount the Snapshot to the host - Failed to initialize CviSCSI library for iSCSI operation” 

We are currently testing Postgres backup and restore in the context of the new Patroni cluster support in CV 11.36.While testing we encountered multiple issues which seem to relate to expected configuration settings on the Postgres server.For example when we tried a full cluster restore (3 node Patroni cluster) with the option to restore all nodes we get an “Error Code: [19:1109]” (we have case 250331-524 open for this already).Another issue we currently have is when trying to restore out-of-place to another cluster-client we get:Error Code: [94:92]Description: Configuration Files check failed on Node [DE9899SP9]. Please check pre-requisites for Full Cluster Restore. Error: [One or more errors occurred while processing the request. (ERROR_ERRORS_ENCOUNTERED.774), PostgreSQL configuration files are missing

When performing the increment backup of VMware virtual machines and this message always appear.Any ideas ?  vsbkp.log“47004 e040  07/21 08:47:13 430196 = vsbkp [BACKUP PHASE] has started vsbkp.exe -j 430196 -a 2:15 -t 2 -ref 1591261924 -i 2 -d pbackup*pbackup*8400 -io 0 -jt 430196:4:1:0:0:44607 -idxma pbackup*pbackup*8400 -numstreams 1 -cn pbackup -vm Instance00147004 e040  07/21 08:47:13 430196 ================================================================47004 e040  07/21 08:47:13 430196 CVMDiskInfo::GetVDDKInstallPath() - Using vStorage VDDK from [C:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\Base\VMware\VDDK\VDDK673] version [6.7.3 build-14389676]47004 e040  07/21 08:47:13 430196 CVMDiskInfo::LoadVDDKLibrary() - Successfully loaded VDDK Lib (libeay32.dll) from C:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentS

Both Commvault AI and Commvault human support (human support seems to use copy-paste from their own AI) say that we need to re-add the Azure SSO configuration in order to renew the SAML certificate.This seems very inconvenient. This means I need to ask the customer to complete all the steps to create a new application with the correct details once more.Is there no way to renew the certificate and upload it to the existing Azure SSO config in Commvault?

Hello,We have several Pure arrays at our primary Data Center that regularly create and replicate snapshots to our Pure arrays at our DR site. I would like to use these snapshots as recovery points for Commvault so I would like Commvault to manage these snapshots. We would like to run snapshots every 4 hours or so and write 1 to disk every 24 hours. I would love to get input on how others have set this up. I’m considering doing this on the Storage Policy level but am not sure that’s the way to go.

During a case a question comes up. A big VSA environment with more than ten subclients. Template VMs should generally be filtered out.That is easy in Commcell Console. I set the filter on backup set level and this works for all subclients.How can I do this in Command Center?Setting all VSA filters on subclient level seems to be a step backwards in product development. I found topics in community but it does not fit for me.Thanks in AdvanceJoerg

Hello,According to this KB:https://documentation.commvault.com/2024e/essential/complete_guided_setup_for_active_directory.htmlWhen I click on configure, I get the error message, “User does not have access to the page.” And then the command center stopped responding.Configuring from the CommCell console is ok.The version is 11.36.52. The user is the admin.  

When configuring authentication for a bucket using oauth, Commvault provides straight forward steps however when looking into gcloud parameters, what should be entered in the "REDIRECT_URI" https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/workforce-manage-oauth-app#create gcloud iam oauth-clients create APP_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID \    --project=PROJECT_ID \    --location=global \    --client-type="CONFIDENTIAL_CLIENT" \    --display-name="My OAuth application" \    --description="An application registration for MyApp" \    --allowed-scopes="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform" \    --allowed-redirect-uris="REDIRECT_URI" \

We’ve done a big hardware refresh and are migrating all our VMs to a new Virtual Center. Our backup environment is not changing at this time so all the storage, media agents etc are all set up and happy already.I thought I’d take the opportunity to “modernise” our backups at the same time, starting to use plans instead of storage and schedule policies and hopefully get to the point where we can largely leave the java console behind and use the Command Center. Our Commvault environment is very mature (20 years) and a lot of work has gone into keeping it in good shape over the years, through many upgrades and hardware refreshes. It works beautifully. So I am pretty old school and very familiar with the old console. Not loving plans if I’m honest, we have two on prem blocks of storage and one cloud library, and we tend to keep everything on the same retention periods. We do use a lot of different schedules so I’m finding the concept where it creates a whole new storage policy fo

Hi, We have a customer that is using Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery SaaS for Active Directory (Metallic MTL-AD-USR) and is interested in the recovery of the Active Directory Forest. We have read that there is a new subscription (Commvault Cloud for Active Directory Enterprise Edition) but we do not see it in the Price List.  Does the customer have to upgrade from Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery SaaS for Active Directory to Commvault Cloud for Active Directory Enterprise Edition or add this new subscription or replace Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery SaaS for Active Directory with Commvault Cloud for Active Directory Enterprise Edition?Thanks,Paul

Does a return code “0” mean that the backup was completed successfully and no files have been skipped? Is there an official link that can confirm these codes? Asking because we want to use the status code “0” in an automated process.