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TomasK
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move from veeam to commvault

hi guys, i decided, that i move my infrastrucutre backup from veeam to the commvault.  i have around 125 VM on VMware cluster ( 5 esx nodes). i the veeam i have a one bakcup job, after sucessfull backup the data is copied to the secondary location and every sunday is full backup (synthetic full) copied to the tape (Quantum Scalar i3 with 2x LTO 8 drives).  now i looking for a right way, how to migrate/move to the Commvault. I have already prepared a two physical servers, one is for the commcell and second is for media-agent (direct attached iSCSI 10 GbE 80 TB NTFS and 2x FC 8 GB to tape library.  i wanna to some best-practice :) its enought to have one VSA proxy in vmware or is best-practice to have on every esx host the proxy ?  from some years ago i know the commcell console, but now is only html5 console ?  how to setup the tape jobs and backup copy ? - aux copy its possible to create some tape media pool ?  its better to have a one backup job for all vm or separate it for app, app/

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1 hour ago
Juergen
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JuergenByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Vmware VSA backup via NBD over backup network

How I configure Vmware VSA backup via NBD over backup network? normaly I need NIC pairing between client and MediaAgent to be sure the backup trafic is travelling over backup network, but in this case the ESXi server is delivering the data, how I can do here NIC pairing, as Commvault has only the vCenter server configured?Currently we use proxy server VMs with hot-add, but we want to reduce the VM foot print.We use Vmware and Windows MAs.Commvault version is v11.32.42regards Juergen

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Juergen
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20 hours ago
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steve12345Bit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

VSA and large VMs

Hi All,I have a VM that is >2TB and we have observed both flakiness and slow performance completing backups, and in particular, restores.I have in the back of my mind the notion that CV recommends very big VMs be covered with FS agent (or intellisnap) rather than VSA but cannot find the relevant reference.The VSA best practice ref. does not cover this situation.  Can anyone help refresh my memory?Thanks

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Vaulter
23 hours ago
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Rafael SantosBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

calculation of storage size for backup per vm (virtual Server)

Dear,Today I back up my environment with volume licenses, now I will use vm package licenses.With this I will change my backup mode from file system to virtual Server.QuestionWill my backup volume change?Is there any calculation to size the storage size of my backup in Virtual Server mode?

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Vaulter
23 hours ago
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Jacob MuellerBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Merge Duplicate Clients

When executing what format are the client names?

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Vaulter
1 day ago
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JoergByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

When it planned to support Proxmox hypervisor for backup?

Reason for my question is Broadcom/vmware deal. Our Customers ask if Commvault supports ProxmoxDocumentation.commvaut.com 11.34 show that PROXMOX is not supported.Research in comunity shows a two year old topic where someone asked the same question.Two year are a long time so I want to ask if and when Commvault plans to support Proxmox?Thanks in advanceJoerg 

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1 day ago
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backupByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

VM Backups are running even VM was in Powered Off State

Hi All, We have many clients that are backing up even in powered off state. As per my knowledge, snapshot should be placed in the datastore and creation of snapshot consider the ESXi host rather than VM (please correct me if I'm wrong).To avoid such scenarios, I found that we have prepared and post process scripts which can be made outside of commvault.Can someone help me on below questionsWhere I can find these scripts?How these scripts works?Do I need to place these scripts in every VSA? Thanks in advance!!

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6 days ago
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Cbcurry1Byte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

AppAware backups failing since update to 11.34.5

Upgraded to Commvault version 11.34.5.  We are running intellisnap backups and AppAware for SQL  Since the update SQL AppAware backups do not work the default way for this version, App Consistent.  The manifest.zip file that is sent to Commvault from vmware doesn’t contain the xml files needed, Writer.xml.  Per Commvautl/VMware this failure is happening on the VM client OS side of things.  Has any experienced this issue? Thank you

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6 days ago
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RandomCustomerByte
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Need deleted VMs details from vCenter on Commvault.

I need the api that gives the deleted VMs list from the vCenter. As per the document:https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/rest_api_get_virtual_machines.html I should get isDeleted in status info as a response but I didn’t see anything like that when I ran the Get VM api:[redacted]response:[redacted]test VM is already deleted. I need an api that can mention that the VM is deleted on vCenter. So I could go ahead and delete it from commvault.

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6 days ago
Juergen
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JuergenByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

OLVM version 4.5

Hello,do anyone know when Commvault will support OLVM 4.5?regards Juergen

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6 days ago
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NiMo
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Hyper-V discovery question

Trying to deploy CV to protect my Hyper-V cluster (intend is to use intellisnap). However after installing the product and trying to configure Hyper-V as hypervisor, it just doesn’t discover any nodes in the cluster nor discover individual nodes. The access node will be available during the first discovery try and then after few seconds it comes back with no error and now access nodes won’t be available.Setup:Hyper-V 2022 2 node clusterPermissions for account used – part of Hyper-V administrator group, Users group, Administrator group, backup administrator group. The account have full control on the hyper-v cluster.Commcell server v 11.34.5 (initial app setup complete – storage and plan added) and Array configured.Mediaagent and VSA installed on both Hyper-V nodes (so total 3 access nodes) There is no log or messages in Events. Any pointers to get my hyper-v discovery working. Looking for inputs from this great community. 

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11 days ago
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downhillByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Moving archive(stub) data from VCS cluster to standalone non-Veritas client

I’m going to guess nobody has contemplated this unless they’ve been with Commvault for eons, but here’s the situation and end-state goal:We have been archiving files on a couple 2 node clusters running on RHEL for years. The cluster consists of multiple virtual clients(each per application group) and the nodes participating in the cluster use the sVCS_SUPPORT reg key to know there’s plugins and such, and to know who owns what. As part of “reducing complexity”, costs, etc., we need or prefer to remove the clustering components.The HW and OS’s are obsolete so migrating the apps and data to new systems but retaining identical names and IP’s. Archiving works well so want to keep stubs as stub if at all possible.The new (destination) servers have new OS’s and no Veritas at all.Rather than rehydrate/recall all the stubbed content, is it possible to simply shutdown old systems, bring up new, and if the new hosts have the same hostname as the old (and obviously the filesystem agent on it), wil

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downhill
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14 days ago
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Nick KBit
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Snap Mount ESX Host under Avanced Options

has anyone had any luck setting up a non vmware snap mount host under advanced options in a subclient? - due to license costs of setting up a non-clustered host (to resolve PDL issues) I am looking for a cost effective solution

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Damian Andre
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19 days ago
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Rupankan BhowmikByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

error - Failed to install File System Core Package on azure stack hci Node

I have an HCI cluster 23h2 that I want to add for VM protection, but I'm unable to add the cluster in Commvault.The error message reads: 'Failed to install the File System Core Package. The credentials entered may not have permission to use WMI on the remote machine. Please check WMI configuration and user credentials.'Source: cv-hci, Process: DistributeSoftwareI verified credentials all is right. 

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20 days ago
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how to check licence
posted in Virtualization and Containers

Licence

I purchase new licence. is this possible to see licence in commvault support portal

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Vaulter
26 days ago
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Gokul KiranByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Is Commvault license calculated based on Virtual machine size or Guest OS size?

We have few VM’s with Thick Lun Provisioning but the actual size of the VM is very small.Let’s say Provisioned capacity is 7TB.But the read size of the VM is 1TB.Does commvault consider 7TB or 1TB of License? 

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Vaulter
26 days ago
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Patrick Bidondo
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Full backup and replication

Hii’m using commvault to backup my vmware environment.I have a DR site, and i use commvault to replicate, once a day, vms from main site to DR site.Backup and replication are working well.I applied a 1 month retention and i schedule an daily incremental with a weekly full.Just fews VMs are replicated. On these VMs, i noticed that there is no more weekly full backups. The weekly full was replaced, i guess “automatically”, by synthetic full.I would like to know if there is away to have a weekly full backup, and a synthetic one for replication ? 

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28 days ago
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SSPByte
posted in Virtualization and Containers

Azure VM Snapshot (Non IntelliSnap Backups) - failing with Error Code: [91:113]

Azure VM backups are getting failed with below error code, Snapshot getting created post that getting unable to read the disk.  log file attached   Error Code: [91:113]Description: Unable to read the disk [https://md-r5sp1nzjkxs1.z7.blob.storage.azure.net/bt5kpx01pl3t/abcd?snapshot=2024-02-17T21%3A00%3A28.0030944Z&sv=2018-11-09&sr=bs&si=ff7b9b039aa14394bae0b2f59321f9726cd73ffc95b549589fcd0d1abefee679&sig=KfuFaTyCvVXB15PVlcnZSxU0CGie22f8oPVAcqfEoQQ%3D] for virtual machine [SAPTESTVMW01] on Host [rg-dev-sapapp-001]. [One or more errors occurred while processing the request. (ERROR_ERRORS_ENCOUNTERED.774), Failed to get allocated extents (W32.774)]Source: weazmgtabkp04, Process: vsbkp 

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1 month ago
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mach123Byte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Commvault VSA Proxy for VMware ( Hotadd transport) Build best practice

I would like to ask for opinions /best practice from field experts on how to build a properly configured VMware VSA proxy which is going ot be use primarily using the hotadd transport.  I have not seen any information in Commvault books online on the details on how to build.Information I am looking such as:1. How many disks and sizes for each2. Block size for each disk3. disk configuration settings and stateAny information provided will help Please note this is for Commvault v11.24 or later and running Windows Server 2022 etc.

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Vaulter
1 month ago
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YMJ
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Network throttleing for DRVM

We are using a 100M line, and we are currently using a single network to an external DR host as well as a backup.Due to network traffic issues, we had to limit the speed of backups.After looking up the TN, we found that Commvault can be set up the same as QoS using the network throttling function.We understand that this feature will be applied on a policy basis, but we are currently unable to find a place to apply this policy to DRVMs.I'll be waiting for any your comments.Regards

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1 month ago
Carmine Bollettino
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Carmine BollettinoByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Proxy virtual machine is unable to backup itself

I configured the backup of VMs created in the Nutanix hypervisor. Everything works except the backup of the VM acting as agent Virtual Server.Its backup fails with the error "Proxy virtual machine is unable to backup itself".What solution can I find to remedy this?

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MichaelCapon
Vaulter
1 month ago
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SSPByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Prevent disk name changes during the snapshot restore process in Azure.

When restoring an Azure VM from Commvault using snapshot restore, where the disk names are getting changed. We want to prevent this without changing the disk name. Our infrastructure uses Terraform tool which expect resources to adhere to a predefined naming convention.. In the terraform next execution, If the disk name is changed after restore. Terraform automation will remove the restored disk and create a new empty one as per the standard defined.Can you please suggest a solution to prevent disk name changes during the restore process?

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wgrande
Vaulter
1 month ago
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SuryavamsiBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Incorrect transport mode selected

Hi Team,Backup failing with error “Error opening the disks for virtual machine [up0022alli_UCS_Central]. Verify that the correct transport mode is selected.”Initially Transport mode was: NBD. It will fail sometime, but will get completed using the same transport mode.Later changed it to Auto: Again its using NBD. Similarly sometimes failing sometimes completing.

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Vaulter
1 month ago
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SSPByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Failed o restore the Azure VM snapshot (Non Intellisnap)

Getting below error during the snapshot restoration. What could be the reason and how to fix this issue. Unable to create a new virtual machine [WEAZPRDAWST01] on host [RG-PRD-SAP-EU-WST-001] datastore [stalogsprdsapeu001].  [A disk with sku 'Premium_ZRS' cannot be created in an availability zone. Code=OperationNotAllowed, HTTP Code=400-Bad Request]

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Vaulter
1 month ago
antonio
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antonioByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Change Storage and Media Agent in the Replication Group (DR)

Hello everyone, I’m currently changing the MA in a environment and I could move all the data and jobs from the old MA to the new one. In the tab Recovery targets configuration I could change the MA to the new one, but I need to change the Primary Storage and could add a new Storage on it, but when I try to remove the Storage Pool of the old MA, I receive a message saying that I cannot remove it. (all the steps was made in the Command Center, since the first configuration, till now). I tried to take a look in Java GUI to try set the Storage Pool of the new MA, but the DR Storage Policy is not listed in there, but idk why. Before I open a ticket (if this is a issue) or reconfigure the DR in the Replication Group with everything new, I wanted to know if there’s something I could do. Do you guys have an idea or a way to do this? Thanks, 😀

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antonio
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1 month ago

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