Commvault Cloud Topics

Hi team,We are building up a new infra in Azure to be responsible to back up all workloads running in Azure, which are currently managed by a Commcell running on-prem.Having that said, we want to migrate ONLY the Azure workloads from this Commcell to the new one, running in Azure. I know that Commcell migration is not supported for Azure, even on version 11.40 (we are on 11.36 latest MR): CommCell Migration - SupportReconfiguring the pseudo-clients and enabling again VSA backups, it's easy and has been done already.The problem is that there are VMs in Azure runnings DBs, where we do a combination of Filesystem and DB agents backups.What would be the quickest way to move the agents from one Commcell to another to avoid the manual work, as there are several clients? Any way that I can user Export/

My VMware admin has created new datastores for a restore test but I don’t see them when I attempt a restore. How do I get Commvault to discover new datastores?ThanksKen[Edit] I’m running Commvault 11.36.83. [/Edit]

Incremental Backup Converted to Full (7.5TB+) following Synthetic Full Completion Problem DescriptionA recurring issue has been identified where incremental backup jobs significantly increase in size (bloating from ~1.5GB to 7.5TB+) specifically after a Synthetic Full backup is performed. In the most recent instance, the backup remained in a "Running" status for over 10 days. While the job continues to progress slowly due to limited bandwidth between the Cloud source and the on-premises Media Agent, the root cause is a logic failure in the backup chain.Technical Analysis Automatic Job Conversion: Commvault automatically converts an incremental backup to a full backup if it cannot establish a valid baseline or if the previous cycle did not close correctly.Cycle Disruption: A backup cycle starts with a Full/Synthetic Full and ends before the next Fu

Hi,  We got an error message on snapshot when we tried to backup a vm with a passthrough disk. We use xcp-ng as hypervisor (XenServer). We tried disk filter with the name and the path, we added the setting bEnableDiskFiltersForXen to true but nothing solve the problem  Last backup job [98] did not complete successfully for the VM group with error: Killed by admin. Reason:[]. Source: commserve01, Process: JobManager Unable to create a virtual machine snapshot of [test-backup01_rhel9]. [] Please check the virtual machine snapshot tree. Source: cv-proxy01, Process: vsbkpLast backup job [98] did not complete successfully for the VM group with error: Killed by admin. Reason:[]. Source: commserve01, Process: JobManager Unable to create a virtual machine snapshot of [test-backup01_rhel9]. [] Please check the virtual machine snapshot tree. Source: cv-proxy01, Proc

Hi All, Our costumer ask, what is the basic encryption Commvault used on another word we not select on specific chipper?

Considerations for Live Sync Configurations on combined CommServe & Media Agent deploymentHi All,I am planning a deployment of Commvault on a single physical server at a remote site which will require Live Sync to a secondary site.There are a couple of things that I am not sure about.If a failover is initiated how is the Media Agent component accessed as the services in Instance001 will be stopped. The same for the Media Agent component in Instance001 on the standby CS/MA.Is it an option to have the Media Agent installed into Instance002 on both Primary and Standby CommServe computers. Doing it this way would mean that the services will remain online.Then the Failover component will be deployed into Instance003?Is this a workable way or is there a different method that would be better?Thanks.Ignes 

Hi,The maximum certificate lifetime is going down:From today until March 15, 2026, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate is 398 days. As of March 15, 2026, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 200 days. As of March 15, 2027, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 100 days. As of March 15, 2029, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 47 days.Certificates for the Command Center (Tomcat web server) must be manually renewed and updated.Does CV have a recommended procedure to tackle this in future or should everyone find their own solution?/Piippu

Hello Commvault Community, We have this situation:There are MS SQL servers that have transaction logs backup during the day. Full backups are made only outside working hours. Sometimes, however, it happens that during the day, for some reason (the logs show that communication with the media agent was interrupted), a broken chain is made and the transaction logs backup is converted to full.Unfortunately, we can't do full house during the day, because it overloads the source servers. What we tried to do:1. Uncheck "convert" in the subclient properties - it did nothing, the backup was still converting.2. Do a "full data management" subclient blackout window for these servers within business hours. The workaround for blackout windows should work in theory, but if the conversion takes place, the job is still process in the JobController as "transcational log" and not full (although in reality it is already ful

Hi folks, I want to ask, what is your SQL restore throughputs for large DBs.We have a 8.4TB database that takes around 18hrs to restore with average throughput around 478GB/hr.Wondering if this can be improved without introducing IntelliSnap.Network is not a bottleneck. SQL server is hosted on all flash array and the backup target is HSX. Cheers,Marcin

Hi,I’m testing backup of M365. I’ve setup Commvault instance 11.40.34 on Windows.I’ve added Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business - no problem.But when I’m trying to add Sharepoint Online app (throught Protect → Office 365 → Sharepoint Online - Configure now) then app is added, but it’s not Sharepoint but Exchange.I’ve setup separate applications for all apps with proper permissions according to the documentation.I just did everything similar to adding Exchange or OneDrive, tried few times with no luck. Any ideas?

Hi All, short question :) We have nutanix ahv vms with quest os windows 11 and tmp active. We are running cv 11.40.10 when we try to run vsa snaphsot we are getting the error vm not found. Do you know if this constellation is supported ? 

Hi All,I’m hoping for some guidance from those who have completed this step of the deployment (Complete the Guided Setup for Active Directory) I want to give the service account least privileged access to the domain as I am not comfortable with giving the service account full domain admin rights as it has been suggested by the deployment team.Has anyone got a break down of steps to achieve the above in Active directory? from what I've seen looks like we need to perform some of the required permissions within ADSI Edit?Any guidance would be great especially from those who have implemented this successfully.

The M365 admin center reports my OneDrive as having 2.8M files consuming 8.1TB of space.But when I go into Commvault I see numbers that are totally different. In Commvault I see either 1) the latest backup had 3.2M active and 0.7M Inactive for a total of 3.9M files or 2) all backups with 6.6M Active and 2.0M inactive for a total of 8.6M files.Likewise, the disk space used is reported as either 1) the latest backup with 3.4TB Active and 1.6TB Inactive for a total of 5.0TB or 2) 9.6TB Active and 4.0TB inactive for a total of 13.6TB.Is there any way to drill down into Commvault to figure out why the numbers – particularly the “latest backup” file counts – are so different from what is reported by Microsoft?

Hi Experts, I have an old setup running in Commvault version 11.16 and I am planning to upgrade to 11.32. Could you please help me to get the details how can I achive without interrupt the services ?

Hi,According to the docs, https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=5430.htm , the following needs to be done in order to send alerts to SCOM:==From the CommCell Console ribbon, click the Home tab, and then click Control Panel. Click SCOM. In the SCOM Configuration dialog box, type the fully qualified host name of the SCOM Server. Type the credentials required to connect to the SCOM Server and click Apply. Note: The credentials must be for a user who has administrator rights to the SCOM Server == The problem is: Our scom administrator don’t want to give admin permissions to an external tool which they don’t manage. (neither do I).Is there a way to implement the scom monitoring without that part? (the management pack can be loaded on the scom

Hi Team,I would like to understand how IntelliSnap backups work and the detailed backup workflow, step by step.Could someone please explain this in detail? Your help is much appreciated.Thank you in advance!

If Install the 2 Independent commcell is it possible later to set-up this as a live sync?

Is anyone currently testing the new feature of restoring Exchange messages to a Blob storage? https://documentation.commvault.com/11.42/software/restore_mailboxes_to_azure_blob_storage_account.html. Have you been able to restore to a PST that is larger then 1GB? Are you locking the blob network to public IP only? Just looking to start a conversation on this.  Hector

Hi all. How would the procedure be, to do a Linux OS refresh from Rocky Linux to RHEL? The servers have local OS, ddb and index disks, and the MA’s have block storage mounted disks for the library.The hardware need to be reused, so I just want to reinstall OS, but keep DDB, index, library data, server name and IP, so that the server can continue operations after the Linux OS refresh.. Any suggestions on how to do this and any recommendations appreciated. Regards-Anders  

Hello,is it possible to obtain a copy of the certifications found at this link Metallic Trust & Compliance – Metallic for internal use to qualify the supplier?Thanks for your support!A

Hi,Since I upgraded the CS to 11.36.83 I wasn’t able to connect with MFA option to web console and JAVA.Before the upgrade it works fine and nothing has been changed with the users and groups.I’m also tried to upgrade to 11.36.87 but still no working, when I’m canceling the MFA option we can login with no problem. Any ideas?Thanks 

Hi,I was wondering how people are scheduling backups. (for example file system backups)Do you only run incrementals and Synthetic fulls? Or do you sometimes run a “real” full?For example, 1 “real” full a month, a daily incremental and a weekly synthetic full.I’ve always heard never to “only” use incrementals and synthetic fulls, and to slip in a “real” full backup once in a while. What would be the reasoning behind it?Looking forward to hear your feedback.

Hello!Considering an HSX environment.How does the data aging process compare to the DDB space reclamation?Sometime I only see space being reclaimed after a DDB space reclamation job.Regards,Pedro

Hi all,I need to move the CS DB to another location as I didn't follow the best practices for the LV size and mixed it with other stuff on the same volume. For Windows, I could solve everything with my own admin account and MSSMS.However, I need to do this now on the Linux environment and I'm afraid of changing the sa password to allow me connecting to the system remotely and use MSSMS GUI.What happens if I change the sa account password? Can later I force an operation via Commcell console, so Commvault will ask me for the new one?For example, on Linux I can easily do this:stop sql server service/opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set-sa-passwordstart sql server serviceUntil here, fine. What about ensuring the Commvault knows the new pwd?The reason is that to perform the change of CS DB location I need to detatch the databases, move the mdf files and attach them again.Is there any other way to do it on Linux environmen

We just started the implementation of Commvault in a brand new VMware environment. Now I'm seeing already an increased amount of duplicate client computers in our environment causing some administrative nightmares and management challenges.So I started investigating it and discovered the UUID registration to differ from what I'm used to when comparing it to AWS. It appears the registered UUID in Commvault is actually the so called PersistentID/InstanceUUID and this one can't be tracked back from within the VM itself. The UUID that is shown from the OS corresponds to the VMware BIOS UUID. We installed some client agents first followed by the configuration of the VSA agent. Both are being used actively. Fixing duplicate client names is an annoying tasks, especially in MSP environments and I'm puzzled this hasn't been fixed by Commvault. Because when you would use the combination of Commvault client name + BIOS UUID and the name that can be read by t