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Commcell Migration - Azure workloads

  • January 27, 2026
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Hi team,

We are building up a new infra in Azure to be responsible to back up all workloads running in Azure, which are currently managed by a Commcell running on-prem.
Having that said, we want to migrate ONLY the Azure workloads from this Commcell to the new one, running in Azure. I know that Commcell migration is not supported for Azure, even on version 11.40 (we are on 11.36 latest MR): CommCell Migration - Support
Reconfiguring the pseudo-clients and enabling again VSA backups, it's easy and has been done already.
The problem is that there are VMs in Azure runnings DBs, where we do a combination of Filesystem and DB agents backups.
What would be the quickest way to move the agents from one Commcell to another to avoid the manual work, as there are several clients? Any way that I can user Export/Import only to have the configuration done, then I can simply release the license on the old Commcell and reconfigure in the new one?

I would really like to avoid this manual work, which anyway would require installing a new instance on the same client, before releasing it in the old Commcell.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion!

"Data fades like memory — unless we choose to remember. Backup is our way of saying: this mattered."

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  • PradeepVaulter
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  • February 4, 2026

Hi ​@Thiago Marcolino ,

CCM supports migrating agents installed inside a VM Virtual Machine hosted in Azure, as long as the agent type is listed as supported for CommCell Migration.

Some agents, such as Azure Cosmos DB, are not supported for CommCell Migration.

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.40/commcell-console/use_cases_and_operations_for_commcell_migration.html

  • The migration process is the same for agents installed on VMs as for those on physical machines.
  • You can export and import the client (the VM with the agent installed) using the CommCell Migration workflow.
  • After migration, you may need to reconfigure or register the client in the new CommCell.
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