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Cloning or moving subclients from one vCenter to another

  • December 4, 2025
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We have a large number for VMware VMs that are getting migrated to new hardware. As such, the VMs will reside in a new VMware virtual client within Commvault. Is there a way to take a VSA based user defined subclient and it’s contents (namely the VMs) and move or clone them to a different virtual client? We’ve looked at the clone_subclient_template.xml but that appears to only clone to the same virtual client not a different one. Has anyone done this before or know of an auotmated way to accomplish this? Thanks!

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  • December 5, 2025

Hey ​@SCI85_BJC  want to make sure we are on the same page.

I understand you have a VCenter A and a VCenter B. B in this case is your new client and A is your current client where all the subclients exists and the client you want to use as the source of the clone.

There is a workflow called "Clone Client Dataset" which will copy the entire set of subclients from a source to a destination client;

 

Here is the entire description from CV Store

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Description
Workflow to clone backup sets and subclients from a source client and then create the backup sets and subclients on target clients. If the cloned backup sets and subclients exist on the target clients, the target backup sets and subclients are overwritten.

Note: Operation windows and schedules are not cloned.

Workflow Inputs
Select source client: The client backup sets and subclients that will be cloned and then created on the target clients.

Select target clients: The clients where the cloned backup sets and subclients will be created.

Select target client groups (optional): The client computer groups where the cloned backup sets and subclients will be created.

Provide email addresses of users to send the report: The email addresses of users who will receive an email report containing the target clients which were updated and which were not updated.

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Here is the link to it: https://cloud.commvault.com/commandcenter/#/softwareStore/11518


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  • December 5, 2025

Hi Dude. Yes I saw that workflow and started to try that out. However, it’s target to target so it would move every subclient (of which we have many) under vCenter A to B and we want to move individual subclients over time not one big bang move. I’m afraid it’s probably going to require writing a workflow or coding something up using the command line or REST API unless there’s something else out there. Thanks!


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  • December 5, 2025

I wonder if this workflow can be modified to input the subclient along with the client….I suspect it could if I only knew how lol.