HyperScale X Q&A

Can we add 7 HPE apollo nodes initially in hyperscale X and do the initial installation and bring up the configuration OR should it be i start with 3 nodes first and complete the set up and installation initially and then add rest of the 4 nodes one by one ? i see below information in documentation.  

Hi,We have to change some of our network card on our hyperscale x appliance.We want to know if we have to  use the procedure for refreshing hyperscale x appliance nodes just to reconfigure network or is there any other ways ?Regards

i have got 3 x HPE Apollo nodes, which i want to deploy Hyperscale X, as per below Commvault Hyperscale X  reference architecture document , we should validate version of hyperscaleX in the "preparing environment step". i dont understand how we can check version when we don’t have installed ISO yet on the server.my understand is, we install hyperscale X ISO on baremetal server, and this ISO also contains RHEL.https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/expert/checking_hyperscale_software_version_for_reference_architecture.html. Also , as per below link of “Setting Up the Installation Media”, if i directly mount ISO on each Server A,B,C and then when i start installation on server A, it will also start installation in Server B, C automatically or i need to manually login to Se

Hello,Is it possible to find a match between the Hedvig rpm version and the CVFS version ?Thanks and regards

HelloWe plan to use NetApp CSeries QLC as a Disk Library for high performance restore with HyperScale-XDo we need additional Media Agent to have the primary copy directly written to the NetApp Array then pushed to tape from the HyperScale-X nodes ?Thanks

Hi guys :)Why is the restore performance so bad for big single item files like vmdk’s (100-400GB/hr)?Got the information that restores (for single Item) only reads from four disks simultaniosly, and the disks are HDDs, so random reads/throughputs are usually slow (by design). Support can’t help because it’s not an issue, and we have to live with it (if we want to stick with HSX). But thats not acceptable by our customers. Is there anything we can do?ThxKr

Hello Team,Just want to check, our requirement is that to take backup of 200 vms on nutanix with vmware environment. All the VMs are replicating with Nutanix to 2nd site. We want take backup of Commvault those vms.Pls advise best practise using network based or snap based backup on this environment.We are using hyperscale 3 nodes.Some of the vms want to take application aware backup. And what is the best process will follow ransomware protection on Hyperscale environment.Thanks in advance. 

Hi,We are going to setup HyperScale X to our customer. As you know they need to create DNS records. Customer said they will do DNS records but they have a question for Active Directory integration. They are using IDM server for adding Linux servers to Windows AD. Question is;Is it possible to add HyperScale X nodes to AD with IDM?

installed intellisnap in one of the media agent , agent installed successfully and job got failed . now all media agents are up but i am not able enable the root account  or cvbackupadmin of this media agent and i cannot login to any of the media agent using root but cvbackupadmin is able to login. i am not sure is it caused because intellisnap instllation ,i have attached log if some one can help

Hi, I want to know if there is a procedure when we want to migrate an existing hyperscale X to an existing commserve? Regards

Hi,I just have a question that does Commvault have a sandbox? I want to test restores or disaster recovery without affecting my production environment. I’m using HyperScale X and the version is at 11.28.102 currently.Thank you.

i*m using Hyperscale x nodes that are also Vsaproxyswhen adding a new Fcdisk to the node it will not be discoverd automatically.Is there an option to let discover the Hyperscale node the SAN Disk. ..Chr 

Hi,I have found how to change the root password on each hyperscale X node.My question is : if the root password is changed, is there an impact for the backup ?Can i change it without impact ?

Hello,We have an hyperscale environment with 3 nodes that works with SFP 10G - we upgraded our network infrastructure Can we just bring the Hyperscale node offline (https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/stopping_and_starting_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture_node.html) replace all SFPs (from the 10G to the 25G SFPs)and it would work? or there is some scripts  that need to be run after we replace the SFPs?Best regards,

Hi,I just have a question that, if I want to encrypt my data, I just need to go to System and check the encryption option or I need to do anything else? Thank you.  

Hello,I am deploying Hyperscale X appliance with 3.2312 image and using Bonded VLAN topology with Management network and all goes ok till network setup phase 5 - it detects all three nodes and shows all correct network setup information and durign cluster validation page it gives error on “unable to obtain reverese lookup hostname for management interface. Unable to obtain 1G management reverse lookup on node….DNS records are already created for comm server registration network and each node is reachable and also storage pool network is reachable. Is any DNS record ot create for management interface as well??error is bit confusing and misleading. Can anyone suggets please?   

Hi All. I have a HyperScale 1.5 setup, with HBA cards installed on the nodes to be able to do VSA SAN backups.I have configured the multipath.conf to use round-robin, so the HBA card will utilize both ports on the card I have noticed that even though round-robin have been configured, it seems that only on port is utilized and that the port being used is then being maxed out.Do I miss somewhere in the HyperScale configuration where I can set the multipath setting or does anyone have any suggestions on how to utilize both ports on the HBA in a HyperScale setup? Regards-Anders

This is my 6th or 7th RA deployment and first time I have run into this issue. I ran through the process up setting up the 25G bonded networks (one for DP and one for storage) got the system into the commserve and then went to have it update to the latest version. cvupgradeos.py ran fine for hedvig updating to 4.7.13, but when I went to upgrade from 11.24 which was pre-loaded on the nodes the first server succeeded, but the second hung. It didn’t give me any feed back. I opened a case and have been waiting to get any feedback.  I am unable to ssh between nodes now and occasionally can using the DP network. I verified that there is nothing wrong with the network stack. Ping, netstat all is good. The services are up and listening. Firewalls are disabled. I ran a nc -vvv (node name) 22 and it connects but hangs. Connection is not refused, nor terminated at the other end. Commvault on node one shows updated to the latest version but will not commu

Hello Team,One of our requirement is that the current commvault is running hyperscale environment and Commserve also running on hyperscale. Now the hardware want to refresh it, so we are planning to go new hyperscale with new commserve or will migrate existing commserve with all backup data and existing policies. Please advise how to approach this migration. Thanks in advance.   

Hello there, I have a customer for which we deployed HyperScale X clusters (11.32) for which we used the CommServe Registration network along the storage network. But now, they want to separate backups on a dedicated network. So now I’d like to add that management network, but I can’t find a documentation page on how to achieve it. I think this was accomplished in some config files on the nodes, but can’t remember which and how.Anyone has a hint on how to achieve this?Many thanks in advance.

Dear Support,We have a requirement to offload VMware backup processing to HyperScaleX server, we do not have SAN in the environment. The storage server presents the disk to ESXi hosts over the ISCSI method. Can we use the same disk presented to HyperScale X over ISCSI method and perform SAN mode backup? Not sure this is supported, if supported using which network label (Data Protection or CS Registration) the HyperScaleX can see the disks. Please help.

So these deployments have been a real hassle won’t get into previous details but the current one hsxsetup wizard will not finish forming a storage pool. Main difference with this one is we used a known service account and password to authenticate with the Commserve instead of the code method in Command Center(account has Master permissions and more on the Commserve) Logs say the account is not an issue and according to Commvault the cluster is formed(3 nodes) and the nodes are registered in the Commserve as MA’s(they have duplicate dedup engines but Commvault tells me this is normal. You can see this from the Commserve you can also see an offline storage pool in the library with no delineated volume information and an error message on the properties saying the setup has not completed. The Commvault Engineer has been loathe to recommend running a cleanup as he feels it would leave things behind they would have to walk me though manually. This case has been with Development for more t

So these deployments have been a real crap show won’t get into previous details but the current one hsxsetup wizard will not finish forming a storage pool. Main difference with this one is we used a known service account and password to authenticate with the Commserve instead of the code method in Command Center(account has Master permissions and more on the Commserve) Logs say the account is not an issue and according to Commvault the cluster is formed(3 nodes) and the nodes are registered in the Commserve as MA’s(they have duplicate dedup engines but Commvault tells me this is normal. You can see this from the Commserve you can also see an offline storage pool in the library with no delineated volume information and an error message on the properties saying the setup has not completed. The Commvault Engineer has been loathe to recommend running a cleanup as he feels it would leave things behind they would have to walk me though manually. This case has been with Development for mor

Hi All,We are in the process of rolling out HyperScale X 4 disk nodes for a customer as part of a global standard for them.  Hardware has been procured in line with the published Reference Architecture for the Dell EMC R650 nodes.  Checking documentation today I note that the Dell R650 has been removed from the 4-disk node models:https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/132722_design_specifications_for_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture.htmland:https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/expert/132722_design_specifications_for_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture.html

our production and DR having hyperscale 1.5 , and we are refreshing production hyperscale 1.5 to hyperscale x and planning to add old production hyperscale 1.5 to DR to increase the capacity any best and easy way to do it ?