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Alexey TesovBit

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Not able to execute Backup-CVVirtualMachine

Hi All,I am trying to run Backup-CVVirtualMachine -Name $vm -ClientName $vcenterbut receive thisI tried to reinstall CVPowershellSDK but it did not help me much, the error stills the same :(

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Difference between VM Backup and IntelliSnap backup in Azure

Hi All, As far as I know, Intellisnap backup is the one of the great option in physical environments. It brings, lot of benefits and improve backup performance.As per my understanding, during the VM Backup, the software snapshot taken by hypervisor, whereas in Intellisnap, hardware snapshot taken by storage and mounted in the VSA. But, I couldn’t figure out, how the IntelliSnap backup works in Cloud (Azure) and how its beneficial over Azure VSA backup in terms of backup performance.Because, both scenario, its a software snapshot and it suppose to be mounted in the VSA to perform backup copy nothing but streaming backup. Can anyone provide more information and also share if you know any whitepaper. Thanks,Manikandan

christopherleckyByte

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Is there some kind of trick to renaming vsa pseudoclients?

I have a number of VSA psuedoclients that need to renamed but the option simply isn't there.Am I missing something simple? I can’t imagine this is a real issue.

Amr ShboulVaulter

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Application-Aware Backups for Microsoft azure stack hub

Hi Commvault Team, The Application-Aware Backup is supported for the Microsoft Azure stack hub? Thanks,Amr

Matthew M. MagbeeSocial Yottabyte

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Creating a virtual lab? Is it for replicated items only?

Where are the options for putting restores into a virtual lab? Documentation seems limited. Any suggestions? I could ping for PS - but I’d like to read and build it out myself if possible.

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Can FREL's support multiple NIC's?

Hello, I am considering deploying FREL’s from OVA to be configured as Access Nodes in a VMware Backup solution.https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/143780_deploying_vmware_file_recovery_enabler_for_linux.htmlIn the environment there will be a production network and a backup network. Do FREL’s support the installation of a 2nd NIC to meet this requirement? The FREL must be able to talk to the vCenter on the Production Network and transmit the Data to the MediaAgent on the backup network (achieved by using a DIP). thanks in advance for any assistance!

EJIEByte

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Data reader of each subclient

Hello good,I would like to know if there is any way to know the # data reader of each subclient configured in Virtual Machines backup, either through a report, query, etc.To determine the load of the storage libraries by subclient and their programming in order to avoid saturation of jobs and resources.Thank you,Regards.

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decomm backup for vCenter

We are planned to powdered off the vCenter. before doing power it off planning to take decommissioned backup, please suggest can we take entire VMs hosted in the vCenter or all folders or only selecting vCenter. please suggest

Heitor OliveiraByte

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Backup and Restore very slow in Oracle Cloud Infraestructure

Hi Commvault community! Does anyone know if commvault has any paper for the case below?Does CommVault have implementation best practices documentation for backing up VMs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?Backup/restore performance involving Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is very slow. In the backup configurations of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, there are no features like there are in VMware so that we can adjust and improve performance.Is there anything we can do on the CommVault side to improve performance?In VMware, we tested restores with a throughput of > 200GB/h. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's throughput is always less than 40GB/h using the same servers.This makes an OCI native VM of only 50GB take more than 1 hour to restore. We don't have bottlenecks between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and CommVault because the entire Commvault architecture is built inside Oracle Cloud.Does anyone have similar infrastructure with backups and OCI? Thanks,Heitor

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How to browse specific file from backup Virtual Machine located on Tape library

Hello,I have Commvault server simpana version 11.28.68, and a few Virtual machines (VMWare).I have a problem with browse specific file from this Virtual machines from backup which is on Tape library.I read that live browse is not allowed for simpana version 11.28.68 and index version2. Is there any solution for this problem?Best regards,Elizabeta

JNIZByte

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Cannot create snapshot of Azure VM with Premium SSD V2 disks

If I add a “Premium SSD V2” disk to an existing Azure VM (or during creation of a new VM), backup fails with error message “Unable to create a virtual machine snapshot of [CL3]. [One or more errors occured]. Please check the virtual machine snapshot tree”.networkaccessAccessPolicy is “AllowAll”, publickNetworkAccess is “Enabled”. There is no problem with “Premimum SSD” disks.First I’d like to ask, if this type of disk is generally supported by Commvault backup. I can send a full log of the backup job.Commvault V2023E. Thank youJiri.

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VM reporting shows incorrect VM usage

Hi all we have a metallic setup where we have decreased our VM usage but in the usage stats it still shows historic and current VM setups which has blown our usage out - it shows that we have 30 VM when we only have 8Is there any way we can correct this

Virtuas JakeBit

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SOLVED - Misleading Error: "Live Mount is supported by VMware VMs only".

Hello, everyone!This post is mostly intended to provide a search result in the event someone comes across the same issue I did. If this type of post is not allowed please forgive me. While trying to perform a Live Mount for a VMware VM being backed up via a connected vCenter environment, the job was failing with error description “Live Mount is supported by VMware VMs only.” Naturally I was confused because the backed up VM was in-fact a VMware VM. Googling yielded no results, hence this post. The cause was rather simple: the job was just failing because an existing backup job was still running. Even though the VM itself was already finished being backed up, the parent job was still running on another VM. The solution was to just wait for the entire backup job to complete. I hope this helps keep someone from panicking in the future!

Boris MontoyaByte

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Hello, i have a problem to restore a VM in transpor mode SAN

I’ve configured in storage dts in read/write,m but when i tried to restore in transport mode SAN, we have problems and i received this error, i hope someane can help me please.Thank you.

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Mount Points not being backed

Hello, I am trying to investigate an issue going on in our environment where a stakeholder is asking us to audit our environment and what is being backed up. I am starting to look into their servers and notice on a couple of servers in the most recent full and see several mount points are listed but some of the mount points show no data, this is what I was suspecting. However, some of the mount points are showing data and it appears that it was able to backup the data in this mount point. Looking into why Commvault was able to backup some mount points but not others? Does it matter what type of protocol the storage array is using - CIFS or NFS to be able to be backed up? Thanks for any info or documentation you can provideCody

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Virtual vs Hardware Agent

I have a Windows server configured as a VM running on VMware, this server has a LUN attached with iSCSI with a file system that is NOT a virtual disk. Am I correct in saying to back this up I need to use a Full Agent such as a Hardware agent? Currently as configured the only backups I am seeing are the Virtual disks associated with this server such as the startup disk.

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VMware Cloud Director 10.5 support

Hello, Has anyone heard anything from Commvault regarding support of vCloud director 10.5?It was released sometime a month ago i guess and customers are already starting to push us for the upgrade.With the 10.4 release in mind and the deprecated API’s for backup in that release I googled and I see that on the green competitor’s forum that if you do the upgrade to 10.5 now, backup will just stop as it did when 10.4 was not supported by Commvault or other backup providers.

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Commvault & Huawei Cloud Stack 8.1.1 integration

HiWe are currently implementing Commvault in a Huawei Cloud Stack (version 8.1.1) environment to run backups for different workloads. Please advise on the Commvault requirements to ensure a working solution.

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Need to Improve backup and restore speed

Hi,Below is my configuration:Commserve is VM machine and version is 11.24.103.Media servers - 1 is Physical and another is VM - Both are configured as Disk’s library (Disk’s are coming from Storage Lun’s).Proxy Node (Access Node) - Both media servers are assigned as access node.We have around 100 VM servers under a vCenter, so I have split 10 sub clients in each VM.I have selected the Auto mode and backups are running nbd most jobs.Currently, I can see the backup/restores are running very slow. Is there anything I can do improve the speed. Thanks in advance.

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Nutanix VM Backup for a virt.Maschine Windows11

Hello CommunityWe want to save a VM backup “Commvault Version 11.28.73 of a virt.Windows 11 VM under Nutanix AHV Version el7.nutanix.20220304.423, but unfortunately that doesn't work. A snapshot can not be set “Internal server error” and this error message appeared here:Description: Unable to create a virtual machine snapshot of [windows11-testvm]. [Internal Server Error.] Please check the virtual machine snapshot tree.Source: cvcs, Process: JobManager

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Commvault and Google Cloud VMware Engine

Hello everyone, I looked in the documentation, however, I did not find anything about it. How can I perform DR of on-premise VMware VMs using Google Cloud VMware Engine as target? Are there any restrictions or best practices for implementation? Thanks, 🙂Antonio.

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default firewall tries to connect through 8403

Hi,I have quite strange situation, we’ve intalled simpana 9 on an HPUX 11, first we’ve installed the with a firewalled envirnonment and it didnt work (it seems simpana 9 doesn’t like the firewall config)after that we’ve reintalled the agent with the firewall disabled on the client but the commserve stills tries to connect through the port 8403.Attaching to beta2rp*beta2rp*8400*8402 using XDR failed. Error:[0xE8090010:{CCvNetwork::Attach_RemoteServiceInternal(1693)} + {CCvNetwork::Attach_RemotePort(1400)} + {CCvNetwork::GetConnection(3272)} + {CSessionConnectionSocket::GetConnection(218)/EventMessage.0x09000010.9:16.(Remote machine [beta2rp]. The socket connect failed. Error returned [-1=Connection failed on spfpt01cmv01 with these errors: 1) Connect failed: Failed to connect fd=3324 to 172.20.192.162:8403: Connection refused; 2) Timed out waiting to be patched through a tunnel]. Check Network Connectivity.)}]20744 07/20/23 11:22:09 :CVSession attach to Remote Host beta2rp, Remote servi

saumitra.techBit

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Linux proxy for Xenserver

Hi All,we have to backup a large number of VM on Xenserver.I created Windows proxy and added it as access node. i was able to backup windows & linux Vm with this.but when I went for Guest file level restore then it was asking for FREL enable ( for both Linux & Windows)Then i added another VM in same host with linux os and enabled it for FREL with media agent role and then Guest level restore worked for both.Now, I want to use only Linux VM as proxy and want to get rid of Windows at all, Can i do this?I do not see any option to add non-widows Proxy as access node in xen pseudo client in commvault.Does it means , i will have to keep one windows VM as proxy for backup & one linux VM for FREL? it would be great wastage of resources . please confirm and suggest any workaround.

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Live Sync: Prioritize replication of full backups

We currently have Virtual Machines replicating with Live Sync, Full is executed and then incremental, my question is, is there a way to prioritize that the Full backups are copied first and then the incremental ones, we see that it does not replicate the full VMs first, if not It seems that it prioritizes smaller VMs.

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Issue connecting vCenter to Commvault

Hello, I have a fresh installation of Commvault version 11.28.56. I am attempting to connect to our vCenter instance through the Command Center GUI. After putting in the information to ‘Add Hypervisor’ I receive a ‘Request body is empty or format is invalid.’ error. Clicking equivalent API shows the following:{ "vcenterHostName": "172.16.123.10", "name": "vCenter", "accessNodes": [ { "id": 2, "name": "n1-prod-commvlt" } ], "userName": "vsphere.local\\administrator", "password": "cGFzc3dvcmQ=", "hypervisorType": "VMware", "skipCredentialValidation": false} Attached is the error. I have tried vsphere.local\administrator, administrator@vsphere.local, and a Windows AD account. I ensured the ‘VSA’ software was installed on the access node. Any help is appreciated!Error

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