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Moving this from the HyperScale to Best Practices board. Hi all, I am in the process of designing an isolated HSX environment. If I share what I am thinking could people have a look and advise me where I could improve. Build my 3-node reference architecture cluster on 11.32 which same subnet as my CommServe & Proxy servers.Each node will have a bonded Active-Backup for Data Protection & Storage Pool . All nics with be connected to a pair of Dell 10GB switches, these switches will have a Data Protection & Storage Pool vLAN created.The Data Protection vLAN will then be connected to the Core Switch. Next, I build two Windows 2022 proxy servers that have FS & VSA agents.I will then configure CommVault network topology to only allow these two proxies talk to my HSX nodes. Finally on my Dell switch I will create an access list to only allow the IP addresses of my proxies talk to the HSX nodes. Any feedback would be great.

hello,I configured the SQL Server database livesync schedule, I would like to do a DR test, on the DR website the databases are in recovery status.1 - How to run a test on just one database?2 - After executing and leaving only one database running on the DR site, how do I return the database to the production site with the updated data?

Dear Team, We are planning to relocate our DR backup environment to another location.Currently, our DR machine is a virtual machine with CommServ live sync enabled and running every 15 minutes. We have a 6-node cluster Hyper Scale 1.5 dedicated to backup purposes in our DR workload. Additionally, auxiliary copies are running daily from the data center to the DR site.Could you please assist us with the prerequisites and potential impact of this activity Regards,ManiD

Hi team, We are on the way to make SLA Report more consistent by remove not scheduled host.Looking for any suggestion how smart group should looks like ?Create one manual group for all schedule policies and second smart  client association to the schedule policies - not equal - [previous create SP] Or... Client by schedule interval - equal to - daily  For all above situation  advance settings KPI → Exclude from SLA   

actually my question is commvault support over the internet backup or lan and wan without vpn and mpls ?How it is possible ? and what is process.

Hi all,I would like to discuss location and sizing of fundamental installation directory. Installation Path - it should be the local system disk, required space will be used from the system diskIndex Cache Path - it shouldnt be the local system disk, at least 200GB free space neededDatabase Engine Installation Path - could it be the local system drive? The space is allocated by the installer itselfCommserve Database Installation Path - at least 200 GB free space for Medium environment, should it be different than local drive?Disaster Recovery Path - it has to be available if the local system crashesCheers!

Customer has setup Private Metric server for having reports beyond the Storage policy retention.  He is running the job summary report which to connect to commserve (CommserveDB), he got this updated to Metric server and CVCloud DB, however the jobs reported as still the same as before. (no data beyond SP retention). Customer Ask:  backup history data beyond SP retention till last one year.  i have found the below community posts relating to the issue but not addressing it directly.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/aging_job_history_data.html Also found the below link for retention settings for metric server, however unable to find a way to add the job summary report hereConfiguring Retention Settings for Metrics Reports Data (commvault.com) Any information regarding the ask is appreciated.

Hello CV Community We have four virtual Media Agents which work in a Windows Hyper-V environment.  Its come to our attention recently that they are failing a VM level backup.  This is due to them having Virtual Fibre channels which are mapped directly to storage.  I cant see anyway of filtering out vFC’s and as a result the backup is failing.  My main questions are  Is it good practice to backup the Media Agents on a weekly basis? If it is, how do I exclude the fibre channels?  The issue seems to be it cannot create a snapshot due to the integration of Virtual Fibre Channels.May thanksTony Q

I have on prem vmware which need to be replicated to azure and we have regular backup set for all the vm’s.I have a media agent and storage in azure confgurued. I added azure in commserv using managed identity.i created replication group and selected periodic replication and in the target i selected the added azure vm hypervisor. It asked me to select a access node so i chose the media agent in azure for that.Now the replication is failing bcoz i can see its trying to backup using the of media agent in azure and it doesnt have access to on prem vm.i selected access node as auto still same, why the target access node being used to backup production vm. what i need is the backup of on prem vm should use on prem access node to backup and whatever operation in the azure side should use azure vm access nodeis this possible?do i need use orchestrated replication in this case ?  

Our devops team have a test that validates the commvault client group with below powershell command../qoperation execscript -sn GetClientGroup.sql -si cg=$group | Select-string -Pattern "^$(hostname)$"They execute that command inside the E:\\Program Files\\CommVault\\Simpana\\Base.The file 'GetClientGroup.sql' no longer seems to be in the E:\\Program Files\\CommVault\\Simpana\\Base folder. So our test is failing.Do you have any idea on how we can validate commvault client group via powershell or any other way.Thank you!! 

I want to fetch the job details by  “job started by” and “job started from” job started by will give the admin/system who started the joband job started from will give started by schedule or manual or gui etc. Motive is to get the job details with the schedule details as well such that I can filter out only scheduled jobs excluding manually initiated jobs. Can someone please help me to get the details form csdb , I am not able to find which db and which table to search for these details.

Hello everyone,Have you automated or semi-automated the installation and uninstallation of SQL agents for several Windows hosts from a Commserv in FR24?Can you please tell me what is the best method?Great, thanks 😉

Hi guys, I’m planning an upgrade and move of an Commserver version 11.20 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to a new server on Windows 2019 installed with Commserve 11.28 2022E to get the MSSQL upgraded as well. I will use DR Assistant Tool as I usually do and as far as I can see in docs this should work according to this statement…“Verify that the destination CommServe host installed with the same (or higher) service pack and hotfix pack as the database that is available in the DR backup that you plan to restore.”  Has anyone done a similar upgrade/move between versions? Regards,Patrik 

You can manage and secure Commvault login credentials, application credentials, and administrative login sessions using CyberArk’s Privileged Credentials and Session Management solution.With CyberArk and Commvault integration, you can synchronously rotate account passwords across your environment. Commvault receives password rotation requests to update application and local admin account credentials so that backups continue to run seamlessly, without manual intervention. You can also use CyberArk session management to log on to Commvault using one-time use admin credentials. This went relatively straightforward. The only thing that is missing in Commvault is a way to verify that the password rotation was successful.One can either try using the commcell user or the application user to browse a subclient to test whether the change was successful. But this is a trial and error method. An enhancement to this plugin would be to have a report or an event log entry in Commvault that a change

Hi,We can restore the file server manually when the client need it. Now the client to ask for can we restore the backup in a schedule basis like everyday at 11.59 PM the restore would be perform automatically.Regards,awsupport1

To try to best explain the situation we need to possibly have 3 environments set up in the Commvault CommServe for our organization. We would technically need to have this in order to separate our three groups that have access to the Commserve already to their respective environments that they would be able to have access to. Currently I have modified their security profiles in order to access certain libraries and media agents but this is proving to be difficult to maintain and I'm just wondering if I'm going about this the wrong way and that there is an easier way to separate the organizations. So for example if I have Group 1 group 2 and Group 3 that have their own individual clients and media agents and libraries that are associated to those groups, then I could associate user accounts to who can have access to those particular groups.I'm wondering if setting these up as companies would be the better option in the web GUI of the comserve or what would be the best practice for this

our commserv is currently running on windows failover cluster , we would like to upgrade the OS and version and change the cluster to livesync i am planning below upgrading the cluster commserv to supported version ,currently its running on 11.26installing failover lyve sync feature on this cluster , setting up stand by commserv with latest os and version , do a failover and if everything works , stop or kill the live sync , create a new server with latest version and make it as standby with same old commserv name , and do a failback  can anyone advise if this works?  or any better solution 

can anyone suggest which method is the recommended and best option , vm file consistent backup + application backup or app aware backup   

I have a few store once devices in my environment.i haven’t been able to figure out what the best practice is in regards to creating catalyst stores.up until now, i have simply created 1 store per site, so all backups go to the same store (sql,file,web, etc)that is to keep it simple. but i have read a few places that the “correct” approach would be to create a store per content group. so one store for fileserver backup, 1 for db backup, etc.Has anyone stumbled upon any actual recommendations ?  

What’s the best practice in applying / installing hotfix?

Hey guys, we are trying to perform cross client restore of HANA DB. CV version on both clients is 11.28.102 and HANA installed on both is version 2. Destination pseudoclient has in HANA instance configured also source physical client (Modify instance propery → details → Hana Database instance contain both source and destination server). Both servers are on same network, connectivity was tested from both ends. Destination param file contain srcCrossClient and srcCrossSIDName values.  Could you kindly have a look on errors below and advise? Many thx.   Backup Stamp=[#NULL] quoted filename=["/usr/sap/AB1/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_T01/log_backup_0_0_0_0"] filename=[/usr/sap/AB1/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_T01/log_backup_0_0_0_0]Broken Pipe file=/usr/sap/AB2/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_S43/log_backup_0_0_0_0 writtenToPipe=67448 errno=32   --- Restore Failure   backint: ERROR: System error: /usr/sap/AB1/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_T01/log_backup_0_0_0_0, rc=32: Broken pipeFailed to Restore the fil

hi , i have done the vmware application validation ,and its working , but i wonder how to select which storage policy copy it should validate it from ,i have prodcution site and DR site , and i want the backup validation happen from the secondary copy of Storage policy is there anyway i can select the copy precedence during the app validation 

Hello,We found that in our commserver, you can access the web.config file with the url http..//<commserver>/console/web.config. (replaced : with .. so the auto format wouldn’t convert it to an clickable url)This was found during a vunerability tests and we want to remove the access.Can we remove the hole Subpage /console, because we don’t use this feature anyway.Or how would you remove the access to the file? Kind regardsJoerg

i am getting below warning while taking datbase backup  i tried to use the scan /tns string but still error persist , i tried service instead of scan then the warning gone is this the right approach .what is the permission required for user account in os and db levelOracle RAC database ] is configured with / as connect string.     Please configure TNS or SCAN connect string to use all available nodes for     backup.   

What’s the best way to find all PSTs from all my laptops and AWS Workspaces? I’d try File Analytics to search for .PST from our PCs but unsuccessful due to 500+ objects. The WebConsole was frozen. Had to kill the task. TIA