HyperScale X Q&A

Are there any rough timelines when HyperScale X Reference Architecture will support the HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120 ?The HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120 is HPE’s next generation of the currently support model Apollo 4200 Gen 10 Plusttps://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/design_specifications_for_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture.htmlThanks

Hi Team, i have a 3 node HSX cluster and a tape library. unfortunately no FC HBA on HSX nodes. i want to do Aux Copy the backup from HSX to Tape library. Meanwhile MA to tape libary is connected using FC. Tape Library MA and HSX are both connected to Commserv , so how we can establish the data connectivity between MA and HSX, and run the Aux copy to copy backup from HSX to Tape

Hi,New install with 3 x Hyperscale X nodes in this config.Cisco UCSC240M6 and Cisco UCS VIC 15427 The VIC 15427 configured as physical nic mode which creates 4 x vNics om the server.Links are up ( after turning off FEC)  and Bond created with LACP.All looks good from the network side  but we cannot reach anythine else on the network, not even default gateway.Analysing the switch traffic the ping request gets to the gateway and reply is sent back to the server but the packet is not picked up.Anyone with this configuration that have had similar problems?  And if so possible solution?/ G

Hello, I am trying to test the application validationfor the first attempt some flow have been blocked by physical firewalls, I opened the ports 2049, 2050 and 111 from ESXi to HSX nodes.I still have the issue, we checked on the physical FW logs and  we see that the ports are allowedIs there any flow to open on the internal firewall firewall-cmd ? 2049, 2050 and 111 ? Thanks !

hi guys, Could someone get me details on how to do the following (if possible) on HSX Ref Arch. On 11.32 I would like another cv admin to authorize enabling root controls. I have MFA enabled but would like this extra security for enabling root access.  Thanks 

hi guys, i just deploy a hyperscale with :2 x1gbe - bond1- management network2 x 10 gbe - bond2 - data protection network 2 x 10 gbe - bond3 - storage network the customer configured the data protection network on the esxi nodes like - commvault-backup network (kernel adapters) the commserve runnning on the pre-installed (ova) appliance on the Management Network and we deployed a linux access node (ova) on vsphere infra and configure the eth0 on the Management Network, but all backups now run maximum like on 1gbe network. What is best practices  ? deploy access node on the data-protection network ? (im using hotadd) or add secondary adapter to linux access node?  thank you 

Hello Team, Hello,I have good experience on Commvault environment upgrade but I want some advices about HSX environment where I a not very familiarCommCell version is 11.34.47 End of life target version is latest 11.36Current HSX Clusters info :whichCommit.shBranch: QBD[v-5.0.8.2]rpmhedvig-common-5.0.8.2_3820_f13a4ee0db-1.el8.x86_64hedvig-cluster-5.0.8.2_3820_f13a4ee0db-1.el8.x86_64In a standard environment, I update :1 - Commserve Linux PROD2 - Commserve Linux DR3 - Media agents one by one, and I connect to each media agent to perform the update locally not push4 - Access nodes5 - Index cache Servers4 - update clients I thing for HSX environment it is the same order :1 - Commserve Linux  PROD2 - Commserve Linux  DR3 - HSX Cluster 1 3 - HSX Cluster 24 - Access nodes5 - Index cache Servers4 - update clients My question is about HSX Clusters update. I am confused about OS upgrade, CVFS update, which order, service disruption during update, anyone can clarify please ?Thanks for the help !

Does Commvault support 100 GbE, 200GbE and 400 GbE Network for HyperScale X reference arcitecture  and commserver.On a 400G network, what is the maximum backup speed achievable? Can we reach 40GB/sec? Would using multi-streaming or multiplexing across the mount points help in achieving this speed?

Hello allplease can you help with this issue there the A nad PTR records exists ?Thanks Pavel 

Hello fellow CommVault users,I run a three node HyperScale 1.5 media agent on HPE reference hardware and recently one of the drives failed. I’ve replaced the failed drive and have started the recovery process to rebuild the contents of the drive.Question: Is there a command that can be run to show the percent complete on the rebuild process?Thanks in advance for any information.Ken 

Hi, I am currently going through the documentation to plan the update but some points are not clear to me:https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/migrating_hyperscale_x_version_on_existing_nodes.htmlIs this paper for both Hyperscale (appliance and RA)? The migration process migrates and reboots each node in the cluster from RHEL7 to Rocky8 sequentially. This process may take several hours to complete.Can I continue to perform backups while the cluster is being updated? (I'm thinking of the database log backups)We have a 6-node cluster, does anyone have experience with the duration? ThanksMichael

I am currently looking to automate some of our tedious task we do manually on commvault. One of which is removing the user DBs from being backup via commvault and deconfiguring a server from being backup if there are no active DBs on that server and vice versa. I started looking at this page here for available API that I can use to help with this PowerShell function I am looking to create. Was wondering if this is something doable as some of the API I saw on that page, I didn’t see one to remove user db from being backup if there are configured to be backed up. Any guidance with this would be greatly appreciated.

We recently received a fresh HSX 2.2212 ISO download from commvault supporth here. Whenever we try to mount the ISO and image servers after we have configured them, the installation has been failing. We have had some success install on 3 of 12 servers with the same configuration and ISO, but the remaining are always failing due to timing out or just fails immediately.  We are using Idrac to mount the ISO and running the install.   

Hi Team,One of my customer having seventeen-node HSX 3.x cluster. They have 12 drive tape library and planning to connect 6 drives out 12 with HSX through to perform aux copy.Here is my doubt to outline the solution.Do I need to zone all the MA with tape library or only six MA? If six MA, how do I choose those six MA alone? Can you share your thoughts/inputs. TIA,Mani 

Dear Community,Have a nice day. I got a question from security team and i need to know your thoughts,Can we install FireEye EDR on HSX Nodes as they are linux based servers ? Thanks in advance 

Dear Community,I try to configure airgap interval on HSX cluster from 7AM to 4AM next day to allow aux copy for 3 hours only , when I run command “./cvsds -c 7:00 4:00” I get “Failed to get storage services status”.Kindly need your support.

Hi All,A customer asked me about the size of the Ethernet frames used between 2 HSX clusters during Auxiliary Copies.From what I understand, the customer is concerned that the frames are too small. And that in relation to certain network components, the throughput obtained is not very high if the frames are small.And he asks me to put the question to Commvault ...As I understand it, this is independent of Commvault. But I'd like to check my understanding to the community.Ethernet has a minimum frame size of 64 bytes. It also has a maximum frame size of 1518 bytes. (if jumbo frame is not configured).For Auxiliary Copy jobs between HSX clusters, Commvault uses 128kB data blocks.These data blocks are sent to the Rocky Linux kernel, which splits them into 1500-byte segments (if jumbo frame is not configured) and sends them to the Ethernet interface driver.Can you please confirm my correct understanding? Is there any reason why Ethernet frames should not be the maximum size?Regards,Luc

Hi alli’m checkin a configuration on node of HSX and i can see that we have an SSD disk (2.9T) not in use, a NVME disk (6T) with ddb and IC and the last one SSD disk (2,9T) for metadataHedvig.It is normal to have a disk not in use ? maybe it could be useful in case of disk fault ?  thanks in advancevincenzo

Hello teamHave a question about HSX RA disks for Boot and MetadataFor boot i saw reccomendations Create a RAID1 volume, but for MetaData i didn’t see anything, jus 2 dedicated NVME\SSD disksI’m trying find some info see below for Cache (CVFS/Hedvig) as i understand we use EC 4+2, so for this disk we doesnt need a RAID1 - yes or no?for Logs (Index cache/DDB) can we used RAID for this disks or its just dedicated NVME\SSD?  and one more question whats happening if a metadata disks will go offlain or crushed in one or more nodes? 

Hi, We are adding a HSX node to a cluster with 4 nodes with 18TB drives. 18TB drives are no longer available for Dell server so we have to go with 20TB drives, that according to doc will be formatted to 18TB usable volumes. Is the requirement for 768GB RAM based on usable drive size or the actual size?Are we able to run these servers on 512GB RAM as the drives will be 18TB usable to the Storage Pool? /Patrik

Is there a command you can run to check the status of all Hedvig Nodes in a cluster?In gluster it was “gluster peer status”Thanks

Hi,I have a question, where the answer just might be trial and error and worst case scenario is performance loss. But other teams experienced a crash of there ESX systems after modifying this setting. So, I thought let me first check here.From a legal obligation to take measures to save energy (in a data center) we are obliged to set servers to so-called balanced mode where possible.We have a hyperscale environment, 3 Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers.If we enable the setting; Power Factor Correction (PFC) here on all 3 servers, could that possibly cause problems, this also in combination with CommVault? Regards,Danny

can we use hyperscale x node as access node from hyper-v backups.I dont see it in list of access nodes

we are trying to do OS upgrade the HSX from the existing 7.9 to 8.9 to be able to add additional new nodes (HSX ISO 3.2312) we tried to upgrade the OS using the Command center and CLI both showing upgrade completes successfully however the OS version is still 7.9 i used the below reference for the OS upgrade operation. https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/expert/installing_operating_system_updates_on_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture.html

HiMapped ESX Datastores via FC to a HSX cluster - reason behind is using SAN Transport mode.Had to reboot the nodes as rescan-scsi-bus.sh didn’t work and couldn’t see the new devices.However, now that I see the disks, backups are not running properly with “failed to read disk over SAN transport” error.Any hints/tips on this? Couldn’t find much around as this is a storage related topic.Appreciate the help around.ThanksIvan