Hey Philipp, are you looking for a more technically oriented discussion or more around MSP service design, pricing, partner program etc? For technical questions feel free to post here and we can pull in all the experts to help. Otherwise, we can find somebody internally to connect with you.
Hi Graham, Yes I use workflows and websites to drive actions within Commvault via API. Let me know if I can help. Understatement of the year. I remember that auxcopy dashboard you created a few years ago on (probably?) V9, I can only imagine what wizardry you have nowadays There is a similiar thread here folks added some thoughts:
It’s been discussed that the MS Windows MA’s running FR11.22 have a significant performance enhancement such that having an in-guest agent may no longer be required. @Damian Andre were you able to get some technical documentation about these improvements? Not aware of any changes. I think there is some functionality change for AHV but not for VMware. Seems unlikely unless there is a new VMware API to consume - the functionality on the Commvault side is straightforward. I’ll ask around! @Anthony.Hodges - Just got word - the enhancements in FR22 are focused around live-browse, so read performance improvements for all recovery methods rather than specifically improving the write performance of agentless recovery. However, they did let the cat out of the bag that they are working on some secret voodoo that should improve agentless recovery. I tried to dig in more but …
Can you confirm if your finding that old snapshots are being retained beyond the intellisnap backup job retention? And are you seeing successfull job completion (more specifically, are you seeing jobs ‘Completed w/ Errors’)? Thanks Jase Thanks Jase - I think that is the key piece to work out here. Snaps are tied to jobs on the Commvault side. If the snaps still exist but the jobs do not, that is different from troubleshooting why the job is still around and holding the snap.
thanks, sorry to ask this questions but it is a complete new topic as you may know and understand This is exactly what this community is for, keep asking
Hey @Will Hawkins - how did you go with setting this up? all good?
It’s been discussed that the MS Windows MA’s running FR11.22 have a significant performance enhancement such that having an in-guest agent may no longer be required. @Damian Andre were you able to get some technical documentation about these improvements? Not aware of any changes. I think there is some functionality change for AHV but not for VMware. Seems unlikely unless there is a new VMware API to consume - the functionality on the Commvault side is straightforward. I’ll ask around!
Great topic - and a powerful part of the Commvault ecosystem!From our APIs (https://api.commvault.com anyone?) to command line, powershell cmdlets, custom reports (combined with alerts and workflows to make apps), workflows… the options are plentiful to integrate Commvault to any app.I think in particular, alerts and workflows are more powerful (and simple to work with) than some people realize. The ability to attach and execute even a basic workflow, using parameters from the alert can provide simple but powerful automation. Internally my teams have used it to build some cool solutions to internal business problems or even prototypes as feature enhancements.You can also couple these elements with system monitoring too, to trigger events and workflows from windows logs other things.When I was in product management, I used workflows a lot to prototype ideas for product enhancements. For example, I created a workflow that would deploy the in-guest plugin to support Application Aware back
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Hi Christine, what i have seen in the field, a restore of guest files direct in a vm is sometimes slower than a restore to an agent and based on the feedback from Jordan there are a lot of options to restore files. try it on your environment to get a feeling for it! Hope that helps you a little bit Cheers Philipp Totally agree and my experience as well. There are protocol slowdowns by routing data through the ESXi webserver which is required for such restores. Almost always you can replicate this by using powercli and running the Copy-VMGuestFile function. This is essentially the same function that Commvault is calling, so its a good way to troubleshoot or validate the bottleneck with slow file restores directly to the guest VM. But lucky that there are multiple options to restore guest files, so if you have larger restores you can use another method!
Alireza B wrote: Please note with CVD port in additional data ports, Client will transfer the data directly to MA on CVD port bypassing the firewall tunnel and it’s protocol. Do note that this ‘protocol’ here will be unecrypted. Agreed and will also bypass throttling if you have set any in place - the feature @MFasulo mentioned is a much better way to improve performance than the CVD port trick, but the old method is still there too with the aforementioned caveats.
Hey Neo (love the name :D)You can check out this video on network topologies for configuring networking within Commvault - but to specifically answer your question:One-way means that in order to communicate, only one side is allowed to establish the network connection. Once established the source and destination servers can talk freely over the established network connection.A good example scenario is when you are configuring networks across a DMZ. Typically your internal infrastructure would connect to servers in the DMZ, but DMZs are not allowed to connect to your internal infrastructure due to security reasons. For this, you want to use a one-way topology where the internal servers always establish the connection, and this tells commvault not to try to have the DMZ servers reach out, but instead wait for the remote side.One ‘hidden’ benefit of one-way topologies is that the network connection is always established, this can be helpful if you have some network glitches - one-way is a
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