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Neil CooperByte

asked in Virtualization

Intellisnap Backup Copy kills Virtual Disk Service on Server 2016 Media Agent

HiBeen plagued with this problem for a while. Support has not been able to crack it yet either. I have 4 Media Agents and 2 are using CBT and crash consistent backup options for the Intellisnap and work fine. The other 2 Media agents are also using CBT but using Application Consistent (quiesced backup) backup options for Intellisnap and these Media Agents will sometimes freeze up the Virtual Disk Service and the backupcopy fails for the remainder of the backup copies. I cannot open the process manager on the MA’s when this happens and end up have to reboot the MA to get things back on track. Not a lot of info but chucking this one out there to see if anyone had a similar experience.

1 year ago

ApKByte

asked in Virtualization

Restore speed vmware

Hi All. I am having issues with restore speed when restoring a vmware server. When a restore is done where “vCenter Client” is set to the vcenter, restore speeds are slow.When a restore is done where “vCenter Client” is set directly to the ESXI host and the vcenter is bypassed, we see a factor 4 in restore speeds. Anyone who can explain this behavior? I thought that the vcenter was only used for control data and not data movement. Regards-Anders

1 year ago

Onno van den BergCommvault Certified Expert

asked in Virtualization

What is the best method to restore files from a guest VM protected by VMware backups?

Looking to restore guest files from a VM, any suggestions on what options to select?

10 months ago

eduardo.jimenezByte

asked in Virtualization

How does Automatic Synthetic Full Backup Schedule works?

Hi :) If I set it to schedule automatically for my fulls at 30 day intervals, will the fulls of the VMs residing on the subclient run at the same time? If yes, what does automatic scheduling provide? Regards

5 months ago

Fauzi SDSByte

asked in Virtualization

HyperV backup did not delete/merge checkpoint disk after completion.

Hi,My customer having issue with hyperv backup. There is a lot of vm with left snapshot/checkpoint after backup completed. Hence there is a lot of avhdx disk cause the storage full.Microsoft said that backup should be doing the merge/delete after backup completed. From my understanding it should be hyperv do the merge/delete since it is hyperv checkpoint, Commvault only give instruction for hyperv to delete/merge it.Anyway that we can do backup without checkpoint?

6 months ago

Kamil WCommvault Certified Expert

asked in Virtualization

Creating pseudo-client for RHEV (http vs https)

Hi Guys, I am creating the RHEV pseudo-client with the Customer.We have noticed that during creating RHEV pseudo-client, Commvault uses port 80 (http) to comunicate with RHEV Manager. Port 80 (http) is blocked by the firewall. They use only https (port 443) in the environment due to some safety restrictions. Is any way to force Commvault (VSA) to use port 443 during creating RHEV pseudo-client? Rgds,Kamil

4 months ago

LaurentByte

asked in Virtualization

Windows Proxy with linux MA+VSA

Hello,Hypervisor is VMWare 6.7VMs are windows server 2019Media Agent is a linux one, with VSA installed. Full VM backup/restore are easily performed.But for granular restore (live browse) from the VSA backup of a VM, a Windows VM is required. It have difficulties to find documentation (or best practices) regarding the deployment/configuration of this VM. Simple questions, like which packages to deploy on it… Surely MediaAgent, but only this one?. A lot of documentation exists when the MediaAgent is running Windows and the VM is linux, as the FREL is available to download, or even how to install a MediaAgent over a linux VM and convert it to FREL. But when the OSes are reversed, I’m lost. Has anyone information to share (at least to me ) ?

1 year ago

Andrei HarcutaBit

asked in Virtualization

Is it possible to have file level restore of a Windows server using a Linux VSA?

We are currently trying to test a restore using a Linux VSA for several windows servers (2012R2,2016,2019). After the first backup and restore we haven't had any issues restoring specific files to the same server of to other servers (all windows).Unfortunately after last nights backup, today we tried again to restore some files, with no success.Every time we try to select the destination server we get prompted with user/password for that server and then we try to browse for the specific path, but we keep getting the same error:Something went wrong. Server may be under maintenance. Trace ID: cvtZsQyx9YDid something happened during the backup process and now the servers are not visible?This is a first time issue and cant get a solution for it.Any advises are appreciated. Thank you.

9 months ago

SLodge_IWByte

asked in Virtualization

NTP config for FREL from the commvault client

We have 1 FREL for each VMware cluster we’re using on CV 11.20.We’ve noticed the FREL trying to reach public IP addresses with NTP packets but we cannot allow that through our firewall.I logged onto the linux console but found that the ntpd service was not active and then it occurred to me that as an appliance, the configuration should be applied by the Commvault client.We have a highly available NTP service available that I’d like to point these clients at and would appreciate some guidance on how to configure them.

8 months ago

Robert HorowskiCommvault Certified Expert

asked in Virtualization

OLVM proxy support

Hi!I’ve been wondering about proxy support for OLVM. If you look at docs there is an information that one should look to RHEVhttps://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/129769_oracle_linux_virtualization_manager.htmlAnd if you go down that path you will find that supported proxies are:RHEL 6.5, RHEL 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8 and Windows 2012R2, 2016 and 2019https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/3358_system_requirements_for_virtual_server_agent_with_red_hat_enterprise_virtualization.htmlOn the other hand using link 1) you will find that there is also another link for VSA support for oVirt on KVM, And if you go down that path you will find that supported proxies are:RHEL 6.5, RHEL 7 andCentOS 6.5, CentOS 7Windows 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016 and 2019https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/31916_virtual_server_agent_support_for_ovirt_on_kvm.htmlSo both of this pages offers you somewhat different VSA requirements and it is unclear of which one should you follow. The other

1 year ago

f-redByte

asked in Virtualization

Vcenter intellisnap backup copy fail

Hello, For some reason i don’t know yet, my vcenter’s intellisnap backup failed since several days. Snap job passed, but backup copy never passed. Now i have a problem with snaps size and dates, my storage team ask me what to do. I would like to fully cancel this job but when trying to kill backup copy it still relaunch immediately, and want to clear the snaps history related to this job (vcenter, even if it does not seem to be problematic here, but storage too). In other words, how can i really cancel an intellisnap composed job to clear all, please? Thanks in advance. Regards.

1 year ago

jegoByte

asked in Virtualization

Deleting server specific backups

What is the process to delete backup jobs for a specific server that were created by a VMware virtual server subclient? In some cases I may want to manually age out some jobs. Some of these jobs may be in cloud archive. Will this free up storage?

3 months ago

downhillByte

asked in Virtualization

Virtualize Machine stuck at 90%

I’ve been fighting with P2V’ing a Centos machine for over a week. The first phases get entirely done within 30m, but the job hangs at the Post Virtualize phase (waiting) for what the logs don’t say. I have a support case opened on this but dev seems stumped as do I. Plus the way they wrote this, can’t suspend it, so after some amount of time, even though to me my machine is fully virtualized AND functional, it will destroy it all when times out eventually. It has done this several times already and is easily reproduced. I cannot believe nobody else has ever ran into this or have they? I told our folks I could expedite P2Ving 100 workstations but now have egg on the old face, 😡11.26.31 we are onthanks

1 month ago

Commvault Engineer

asked in Virtualization

Virtual Media Agent Control

Hi guys, For a specific need, I wanted to create VMs MA with VMware. As the goal of the virtualization part, it to be able to control the power state of the VMs.I know that Commvault has “VM Power Management” which offers the possibility to control VMs. But I still have confusions on how to implement this, does my VMs have to be added as client first on my commcell then install the MA package, or do they have to be added in a separate way ? The final goal is to be able to shut down a VM MA after an aux copy job.Any tips would be much appreciated Regards.

10 months ago

MOGFREYBit

asked in Virtualization

kubernetes error backing up application for etcdb backup

Hi Team, I have been trying to backup openshift 4.10 etcdb via kubernetes but i keep on getting the error: “Error backing up application”. Below is the vsbkp.log excerpt K8sApp::CreateWorker() - Worker pod [data-dir-etcd-rwdrmstrpd01.rwdrocppd01.kcbad.com-cv-412129] created successfully for PVC [data-dir] 296908 48818 11/21 17:37:20 412129 K8sApp::IsETCDSnapDBFilePresent() - Checking if etcd db snapshot file [/mnt/data-dir/cv_etcdsnapshotdb_21_11_2022__17_25_54] is created. 296908 48818 11/21 17:37:20 412129 K8sApp::IsETCDSnapDBFilePresent() - Checking ETCD DB snap file presence from worker pod. namespace:[openshift-etcd] volume:[data-dir] snapid:[etcd-rwdrmstrpd01.rwdrocppd01.kcbad.com-cv-412129] container:[cvcontainer] podname:[data-dir-etcd-rwdrmstrpd01.rwdrocppd01.kcbad.com-cv-412129] CK8sInfo::MountVM() - Backup failed for app [etcd-rwdrmstrpd01.rwdrocppd01.kcbad.com]. Error [-1:0xFFFFFFFF:{CK8sInfo::Backup(399)} + {K8sCluster::CreateAppFromSnapshot(679)} + {K8sApp::IsETCDSnapDBF

3 months ago

tsmtmillerByte

asked in Virtualization

ERROR CODE 91:379

Hello, does anyone have any advice on this error during a VM restore test?ERROR CODE [91:379]: Host [] was not found to restore VM [].Source: CVMA01, Process: cvdOne thing I found is that Check Readiness fails when ran on the vcenter. Its pointing to a virtual (VA) server that no longer exists. Only the physical MA is present. I suspect this is the issue. Is there any way to change it to use the physical MA and not this missing VM? I do not know why the VM was removed or why the physical MA is not the server being pointed to for jobs. The interesting thing is that the backup jobs are completing successfully like nothing is wrong. When I look at Browse and Restore, all of the servers VMDK files are marked as “Unavailable” but the other files (log, vmx, vmxf etc) on each VM have date stamps.

11 months ago

Zitouni SeifeddineBit

asked in Virtualization

Retention planning questions for 19 TB of vms on a 35 TB storage array

Hello I have a 35 Tera storage array and I want to back up 19 Tera virtual machines.I want to know the possible retention to save them. Thanks

2 years ago

HenkRByte

asked in Virtualization

Hyper-V in pause mode stop or failes back-up with Intellisnap

If you have one node in pause mode inside a hyper-v cluster and start a backup on a clustershared volume with Intellisnap enabled the job failed because of the node that is in pause mode.Is there an option or solution to work around this?

8 months ago

antonioByte

asked in Virtualization

Unable to delete Schedule Policy

Hello guys, I’m trying to delete/remove a Schedule Policy under a Subclient, but the option for removing, is not enabled:I try to run a Decouple, but I received this message:I need to remove the Schedules so the VSAppware can run with no problems. I think that I’m doing something wrong, but I can’t figure it out what it is, .

1 year ago

KelvinByte

asked in Virtualization

VMware HotAdd transport mode is not working very well

Hi, We are having a problem with our Netbackup setup with HotAdd mode to backup our VMware, i.e. if the Proxy Server takes more than 4 VMs to backup at the same time, loads of VMs would fail with the below error messages.“Error opening the snapshot disks using given transport mode: hotadd Status 23” In other words, this Proxy Server can backup no more than 4 VMs at the same time. OK, I admit that this is a problem in our Netbackup environment but I feel that I may get some help by posting this question here in Commvault forum because Firstly, the reason why we are testing this HotAdd transport mode within Netbackup environment is because we intend to deploy the same technology in the coming months in our another backup environment which is Commvault. Also, at the moment, the Netbackup support seems to be at their wits’ end (which does make me feel a bit disappointed). But, on the other hand, the issue seems to be more connected to the VMware environment and its associated configuration

1 year ago

euMikeCommvault Certified Expert

asked in Virtualization

Virtualize Me Hyper-V Problem

Hi!We are in the middle of PoC with potential new customer and we ran into a problem with P2V to Hyper-V VM.Error message:Error Code: [19:1616]Description: Virtual Machine Management job has failed because Refresh is not done for Virtualization client :[HYV-CL.company.com]. Please do refresh operation for this virtualization client.Source: CV, Process: VMManagementVMManagement.log:10136 3888 08/31 11:20:46 ### Init() - Initializing job control [token=,cn=CV], serverName [CV.company.com], ControlFlag [1], Job Id [671]10136 3888 08/31 11:20:47 ### DBBase-SQL() - dbmethods.cpp:1431, DB Layer will use [Exec] access by default. Use SetAdminAccess API for on demand Admin access.10136 3888 08/31 11:20:47 ### Cvcl::init() - CVCL: Running in FIPS Mode10136 3888 08/31 11:20:47 ### DetectNativeClient() - Found reg key [SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\SQLNCLI11]. Using driver [SQL Server Native Client 11.0].10136 3888 08/31 11:20:49 ### CVJobCtrlLog::registerProcess(): successfully cr

1 year ago

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