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Hi there, we’ve taken over an environment we did not install, and the client’s Hyper-V servers all appear to have the media agent role installed, and appear under the list of media agents, with disk libraries having mount points prepended with “IP” in front of the drive path.  I’ve never seen this before - and we don’t use Hyper-V in our other environments.  My guess is that they deployed the media agent in error.  Can someone running Hyper-V perhaps confirm for me please?  Thanks, Ray

hello @Ray Diack 
 

Have you checked the MA IDA in the installed software on the Hyper-V client? If you have, before deleting anything—since you mentioned you're new to the environment—I recommend starting by disabling the Hyper-V media agents and libraries.

 


Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist

Hi Mohamed,

Thanks for your reply!  When you say checked the MA IDA - do you mean check that the media agent component is listed in the installed software list for the Hyper-V client?  If so, yes, it is listed there. 

thanks,

Raymond

hi @Ray Diack ,

As already suggested, I wouldn’t change any configurations just yet without really knowing why it was done in first place.

If the VSA Proxies are also an MA, would it be because they had LAN-Free Backups configured?

Further information on this available here = https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/configuring_lan_free_backups_microsoft_hyper_v.html

Thanks @Javier.  I don’t think they would’ve been attempting LAN free backups as I don’t think their Hyper-V servers share storage with Commvault - but I will chat further with their administrators and see if they can shed further light.  

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