Hello Commvault Community,
We are running 11.32.35, right now we have around 70 VMs with Windows and Linux operating systems. We also have a single Media Agent running RHEL.
To backup Windows-based VMs, do we need to deploy Windows MA or can we leverage it with existing RHEL MA? Then what about the VSA, is it also has to be windows-based? Please suggest.
Best answer by Ledoesp
View originalNo need to deploy a Windows MA/VSA for protecting the Windows Guests.
Live browse operations using Linux MediaAgents are supported only for the NTFS file system. The operations are not supported for IntelliSnap.
Dynamic volume types such as spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 are not supported.
You cannot restore files with advanced encryption attributes using a Linux MediaAgent. For live browse of IntelliSnap backups, you must use a Windows MediaAgent to browse. The ACL of NTFS files is preserved during cross-platform restore operations only if the destination client is installed with Windows.
Hi Ledoesp,
Thanks for the answer! Will look more into this.
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