Virtualization and Containers

We have been experiencing checkpoint backup failures for VMs on Hyper-V Failover cluster. The CSVFS volume is having 30% free space. How much is the free space needed for the VSA backups to complete for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual machines. In VMware it is recommended to keep 10% free space on the datastore.

Dears,,I created a new linux virtual machine and installed the Commvault Virtual Server package on it in order to use it as a VSA Access Node for our vCenter environment. However, the server does not appear as an available Access Node, and I am unable to use it for VMware backups. 

I am receiving the following error in the backup of a Hyper-V VMError code: [91:148]Description: There are too many existing backup snapshots on virtual machine [ServerName]. Backup snapshots are being cleaned up, but manual intervention may be required to ensure that all snapshots are removed. This may indicate that the storage is unable to keep up with the I/O activity of the virtual machine during a backup.Source: cs0003, Process: JobManagerWhen I look in Hyper-V Manager, I see no checkpoints for this server, so I’m unsure how to resolve this.  I assume it’s possible it may resolve itself over time, but this has come up the last 2 backup cycles. 

Hello Commvault Community,I am currently working with Commvault version 11.42 and testing backup and recovery features for OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).I have seen information stating that file-level restore for OpenShift Virtualization is not supported, but I have not been able to find this limitation officially documented.Could you please confirm whether file-level restore for VMs running on OpenShift Virtualization is indeed not supported in Commvault 11.42?If this is correct, can you share an official Commvault documentation link where this limitation is mentioned?Having this clarification and documentation would help us properly communicate the capabilities to our teams and customers.

Poderiam validar esse se todas essas informações estão corretas, preciso enviar um script para DBAModelo de Script RMAN — Backup Oracle com Commvault Ambiente: Oracle 19.3 (Data Guard – AWS)Agente: Commvault 11.32Servidor: orcl.us.oracle.comLocal padrão de scripts: /u02/app/oracle/admin/scripts/ # ============================================================# Script RMAN para backup via Commvault# Caminho sugerido: /u02/app/oracle/admin/scripts/backup_commvault.rman# ============================================================ # Observação: confirmar ORACLE_SID conforme base configuradaexport ORACLE_SID=<NOME_BASE>         # <-- Ajustar pelo DBAexport ORACLE_HOME=/u02/app/oracle/product/19.3.0/dbhome_1  # <-- Validar caminho do Oracle instaladoexport PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin # Início da sessão RMANrman target / <<EOF #

Hi,I’m trying to back up virtual machines in my OpenShift Virtualization cluster. I’ve already deployed the Access Node within the cluster, and in the Commvault console, I can see the namespaces and pods listed as applications. However, the VMs are not being discovered by the Commvault server.This setup is running in a lab environment, and I’d like to understand why the VMs are not appearing. Could this be due to a misconfiguration, a licensing requirement, or another limitation that prevents Commvault from backing up OpenShift virtual machines? 

Hi, We have some Commvault supplied ova’s that are deployed in our environment running Oracle Linux. Recently there has been a CVE for VMware Tools and we were looking at ways to update that on these boxes. They don’t seem to be locked down like an appliance. Has anyone else had experience in updating VMware Tools on these?Thanks

Why suddenly the files and folders inside the installation directory of my onprem backup gateway server lost. Even when reboot it nothings bring backup. Does it is a known issue that something needs to be done to become persistent when deploying the OVA?  

Dears,,I have tow large VMs > 14 TB . it will take many days to full or incremental backup . what are the best configuration to implement this VMs .I have ocean protect Huawei storage.  I don't create VSA for this Vcenter .

Hello Commvault Community,  I've had a similar problem in other environments before, but I didn't investigate further. Currently, after upgrading from SP28 to SP32, a communication problem occurred in one environment for an OLVM backup. The logs show entries like these: vsbkp.log20252 4f1c 10/30 13:13:59 1413471 CVClient() - File[Client.cpp], Line[105] netHostName[ABC.XYZ.com]: Warning, deprecated call to lookup client using net hostname. Please use shortname instead20252 4f1c 10/30 13:13:59 1413471 NetMessage::verifyResponseHeader() - Error Code [10485792] returned - [Error: AppLookupClientWithHostName errorCode[1] message[Unable to lookup client with hostname. Please check if CS has duplicate clients with hostname[ABC.XYZ.com].].20252 4f1c 10/30 13:13:59 1413471 ClientInterfaceNet::lookup() - Error: AppLookupClientWithHostName errorCode[1] message[Unable to lookup client with hostname. Please check

Hi Experts,I am new to IntelliSnap. What I got to understand after reading is that with IntelliSnap based VM backup,A snapshot of the VM at vCenter level will be taken as well as a snapshot of the whole VMDK disk at the storage level. Then VM snapshot at vCenter will be deleted. The VMDK luns need to be zoned and assigned to physical media agent. Question: How will this array-based snapshot be assigned to MA? Then the data from the snapshot goes to MA to the storage. Question: It requires separate policy, right? The backup process is LAN-free and over SAN only. Right?Then how does the restore work? Is it also LAN-free and over SAN?  Thanks ahead. Kindly help me.Quazi Ashfaq

Hi,I'm facing an issue after deploying the CommServe OVA on a Linux-based system (Rocky Linux) under VMware.After deployment, when I check the services, I get the following error:systemd-coredump[55307]: Process 54709 (dotnet) of user 0 dumped core. The CVWebserverBridge service is shown as N/A in the Commvault services list, and I’m unable to get it to start.I’ve tried replacing the embedded .NET runtime with various versions (e.g., 8.0.14, 8.0.16), but the error persists. This leads me to believe the issue may be with the OVA itself, or the image might be corrupted or misconfigured.I'm currently using Commvault version 11.40.Has anyone encountered a similar issue, or is there an updated OVA or workaround available?Thanks in advance.

Dear all, We are new with Nutanix, and company has the need of integrating Nutanix 7 with our commvault platform. We are using 11.32 and base on documentation it’s supported. Our concern is whats the component that we have to add during the integration?Prism Central IP Prism Element IP (nutanix node) Base on all the documents we have read we still have many doubts. Even after watchign these video:Commvault v11 - Nutanix AHV support preview Any help is welcome.ThanksPatricio

Hi Team,We have multiple VMware VMs running MySQL databases. We do not want to install any Commvault iDataAgent inside these VMs and plan to perform agentless VSA (VMware snapshot-based) backups for them.Could you please confirm the following: Whether agentless VMware snapshot backups for these MySQL database VMs provide application-consistent (MySQL-consistent) backups ? In case of VM restore (either in-place or out-of-place), will the MySQL database be recoverable without any corruption or data inconsistency issues? Will the database be restored to a consistent point-in-time corresponding to the available recovery point of VM ? We want to ensure that database consistency and integrity are maintained during backup and restore operations without deploying the MySQL iDataAgent.

Hi,I want to deploy v11.40 Commserve Linux OVA in VMware but I am not able to find proper package at the store (https://cloud.commvault.com/webconsole/softwarestore/store.do#!/).What package name should I look for at the store?Regards,Lubos

Dear Team, We encountered an issue during a VM-level backup of an OLVM-hosted Oracle DB server. Immediately after the backup started, the Oracle database went down. We killed the backup job, but the VM snapshot was not deleted.We engaged the Oracle vendor to remove the stale snapshot; however, the snapshot could not be deleted.At present, we only have full file system backups (no recent image-level backup). Please advise on the best approach to recover the server end-to-end. If there are alternative options, kindly share them so we can first validate in our lab environment and then proceed in production if successful. Regards,Mani D

we use Intellisnap to protect Azure VM, Comvault will create ZRS snapshot for Azure disk, any option to create LRS snapshot?

Hey all,Forgive my newbie-ness.I am attempting to setup Azure backup in CommVault 11.26.62.  I created the Hypervisor, but had some questions about the Access Node setup.  I want to put the access node in my region where my storage and VMs are, but my confusion is with it requiring a computer group.  I don’t have any of my Azure groups listed in CV yet, as I don’t have the access node/hypervisor setup, right?If anyone has any documentation on this config i’d sure be interested in knowing.  The CV documentation is, well, just not that good as far as I can tell.Thanks!

Hi there,My name is Jim and I’m a Product Manager at OpenNebula - one of the most popular cloud management platforms on the market.We are an Open Source product and have a huge community of users, however in recent months we’ve had a huge influx of requests from our Enterprise Edition customers for Commvault VM backup support.I understand that in order to have this native integration it will need work from the Commvault team and perhaps you have some API standards we can implement on our side as well. We are willing to commit resources to assist and work on such an implementation and it would be great to open a discussion with the Commvault team on this.It would be great to hear if Commvault have had requests from their side as well - we would love to partner on this and share information on the Commvault / OpenNebula customers who have requested such an integration.Thanks in advance,Jim

hello everybody :)I’m deploying a new infrastructure with on prem Commserve and physical media agents, the customer wants to separate the backup data trafic to an isolated network.I configured the new interfaces for this vlan on each media agent and on the vmware hosts, i can ping everything on this dedicated network.I’m struggle to find how to configure Commvault to use this network for backups with data pair.Obviously I dont see the vmware host on the console, only the vcenter which the server used to initiate backups. So no hosts appears on the network pair wizard. Any recommendation? Do I need to add all hosts on the server list ?

Good Day,in July was announced from Commvault and Platform 9 that there is Partnership and native implementation will happen, see here Solution brief from Commvault:https://www.commvault.com/resources/solution-brief/commvault-cloud-for-platform9-private-cloud-directorI cant find any further information, regarding when it will we implemented in which version or any Timeline or something else.Any information which can be shared right now? Thx & BRMarcel

Hello!I hope you all are doing well!I have been working with Commvault for a few years, but I have never dealt with Kubernetes backup before. So I really do have a lot of questions and challenges.While I am still trying to prepare the environment to be stable and resilient, I discussed with the Kubernetes team a specific application called RabbitMQ.We currently have a scheduled backup once per day, but the k8s team told me that there are a lot of changes happening within this RabbitMQ queue. It is constantly changing.So my concern is: how can I help the k8s team to properly cover this? Do you know any best practices for such cases? Something like a log backup maybe? I don’t think running a full RabbitMQ backup every 15–30 minutes is a good idea.Do you have any tips? 

Hello! I am trying to figure out how to setup backup copy job to run right after SNAP backups job finishes.Does anyone has a clue? Default setting were to run every 4 hours but i have changed it to run once per 24h. Now it obviously CANT be changed back and its scheduled to run at specific time 08am.We use CommandCenter and can use also CommCell Console.

Hi TEam,  Is it possible to restore AWS EC2 instance to HPE VME cluster using commvault 

VM Backup failure.Error Code: [91:584] Description: Failed to get the index information from previous backup. Source: da-commvault-01, Process: JobManager