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askesiByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Metadata collection failed for virtual machine - Guest file browse will not be available for this virtual machine

Hi all,I would like to discuss with you following issue. There is an issue with backing up of VM machines.Hence, there are strange warnings such as Metadata colletion failed for virtual machine, Guest file browse will not be available for this virtual machine, Used space calculation for volume and VM is not possible, as this is only supported for ntfs volumes, File system metadata collecgtion is not supported for (Unknown) volumeIt seems that all vmware backup jobs are very slow...my guess is that there is something bad with vmware environment itself. There is nbd transport mode used as auto option. Have you ever seen any simillar issue? Where to start troubleshooting?

1 year ago

JeremyByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Intellisnap Linux Proxy on RHEL 8

Hi,We are currently having an issue with a Linux Proxy that is running RHEL 8.x.We used to have a Linux proxy running RHEL 7 that was being used to mount snapshots from other RHEL 7 clients and copy them over to the disk library.As we rolled out new RHEL 8 clients, we wanted to set up a Linux Proxy running RHEL 8.x.The Snapshot copy phase works fine and we can see the snapshots on the storage. However, the backupcopy job fails, already during the Scanphase.In the logs we can see the following:362266 5871a 01/06 14:22:02 2973716 CVMMSnapAPI::processVolSnapOperation() - Request to MM -- << OpType[2: Mount] SnapJob[2970008] SrcClient[1759] MountHost[1956] VmHostId[0] OpSrc[1: IDA] OpMode[3: HWDB] Flags[2] HopCount[0] Status[0] >>362266 5871a 01/06 14:22:02 2973716 CVMMSnapAPI::processVolSnapOperation() - VolSnap to MM -- << [V-6: 28431 28432 28433 28434 28435] [MS: 79 79 79 79 79] [S-4: 24640 24641 24642 24643] [MD-14: -1 -2 65695 -3 -4] [M-24: 55236 55237 55238 55239 5

1 year ago

brucquat

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Application plugin & SQL Agent

Hello,One of our customer wants to remove the SQL application plugin (application aware backup) installed in his VMs and replace it by the “real” SQL agent to take a streaming backup for the SQL environment. The application plugin was installed during the first application aware backup.Is there a procedure to remove the SQL application plugin and install the SQL iDatagent?ThanksBest regards

1 year ago

brucquat

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Process to restore VM data from VSA backup

Hi,We take backups of VMs by installing VSA on VM and using hotadd transport mode (mount of VMDK of VM to backup into VSA proxy). The VMDK data are then sent, through the LAN, from the VSA proxy to physical media agents containing disk space.Now, I am looking for the restore process. Is the restore process as follows:Restore VM data from Media Agent to VSA Proxy using the LAN The VSA Proxy mounts the VMDK of the VM to be restored (even if we need to restore a single file?) The VSA Proxy sent the data to restore (file/folder or VMDK) to the VM to be restored using hypervisor mechanism? Many thanksRegards

1 year ago

CVAdminBit

asked in Virtualization and Containers

[Failed to enable changed block tracking [Change tracking cannot be enabled when snapshots are present]].

Backup has completed with partial success for VM with below error. do we consider the backup as completed or not when we have below error.what does it use when we have CBT disabled, is the backup consistent and restorable. [Failed to enable changed block tracking [Change tracking cannot be enabled when snapshots are present]].

1 year ago

DMowersVaulter

posted in Virtualization and Containers

VM Datacenter Refresh Question

I received this message from a customer…We would like some information on the refresh Datacenter option for VM backups. This looks to have resolved one of our issues with VM tags recently.We are trying to determine whether the following happens. Does this occur normally on a regular basis? How often should we run it manually? What is being done when it is run? What is the impact of it running? How often should we run this? Can / should we workflow this to run regularly?Thank you

1 year ago

Alex ZettBit

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Live Recover and Live Mount error

Hi we are currently setting up a Test Environment to test Live Mount and Live recovery functionality in Commvault. When trying to Live Recover a previously backed up VM we get the following error message:Tdfs::TdfsConfigClient::SendCommand(1854) - Error attaching to server. [0x80070057:{CCvNetwork::Attach_RemoteService(1770)} + {CCvNetwork::Attach_RemoteService(1713)} + {CCvNetwork::Attach_RemotePort(1351)/W32.87.(The parameter is incorrect. (ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.87))-Port passed is not valid. [3dfsService/0/0].}]Tdfs::TdfsConfigClient::Start3dfsServerWithWait(1389) - 3dfs server failed to start. ret [-16]CreateNASDatastore() - PlatformConfigFaultFault Exception - [An error occurred during host configuration.] - [Mount failed: Unable to complete Sysinfo operation. Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.: Unable to connect to NFS server]For a Live Mount we get:VmOperation::LiveMount() - LiveMount Operation with error code [125], error message[Mount failed: Unable to com

1 year ago

brucquat

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Which value to use from VMware Rvtools?

Hello,We need to foresee the backup capacity of VSA backups using hotadd transport mode. The VSA proxies are virtual machines and they send the data to physical media agents.We got the question from our customer: which value do you take into account to make your disk capacity calculations from the VMWare RVTools? There are different values from RVTools concerning capacity:vInfo Tab -> Column “In Use MiB” vPartition Tab -> Column “Consumed MiB”The values are very different. Thanks for your feedbackRegards,

1 year ago

MOGFREYByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

unable to process browse request

Hi Guys, Been trying to do a live browse from a vsa client backing up a vmware fileshare but i keep on getting the error “unable to process browse request” after about an hour of waiting for the browse. I can see the following errors on pseudomount log: 964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## AbortCurrFileData() - Sending req. to abort current file data. AfOffset [1754191950290]4964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## AbortCurrFileData() - Failed to send abort file data req.4964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## DMRPipelineReader::ProcessJob(954) - Failed to abort pipeline buffer reads for AFile [5689820] Offset [1754191950290]4964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## DMRPipelineReader::ProcessJob(982) - Error Buffer Report: ErrCode [402653190] AFileNumber [5689820] AGroup [0] ComcellNumber [0] ComcellId [2] Offset[1754191950290]4964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## DMRPipelineReader::ProcessJob(985) - Pipeline error, removing cached afile [5689820] info.4964 6168 12/23 10:13:29 ######## DMRPipelineReade

1 year ago

KV singhByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Azure VSA backup - browse issue

we are trying to backup the azure VMs using MA placed in azure with VSA installed on them. Backup is taken to azure blob storage vis service endpoint. Problem is, when we try to browse the content on subclient of azure pseudo client, sometime we get error and some it shows the content (VM list). credentials are fine, all permissions are in place. cloud test tool also shows clean result. Any recommendation on what logs we can check when it fail to browse subclient content on azure pseudo client? also any other suggestions will be really helpful.

1 year ago

Onno van den BergCommvault Certified Expert

asked in Virtualization and Containers

VMware Cloud Director v10.4 Support

Last month VMware released VCD 10.4 which is an exciting release for a lot of VMware Cloud Providers. But this time they also deprecated a lot of older API versions including the API version that is being used by Commvault. We currently run FR26 which uses API version 31 to communicate with VCD so we cannot upgrade to VCD 10.4 and it's also not listed as part of the supported version in the FR28/2022e documentation.I heard rumours support will be added in a FR28 (2022e) maintenance release somewhere in the near future, but I hope someone can be more clear on when we can expect VCD 10.4 to be supported. From the release notes:VMware Cloud Director API versions 31.0 and 32.0 are not supported VMware Cloud Director API versions 33.0, 34.0, 35.0 and 35.2 are deprecated and will be unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release.https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.4/rn/vmware-cloud-director-104-release-notes/index.html

1 year ago

Carl Brault

asked in Virtualization and Containers

VM LiveSync to Azure - Test failover

Good day everyone,If a customer has Vmware VMs that are replicated to Azure using LiveSync, if we do a test failover, do we necessarily have to do a failback. It takes a long time because it has to sync the full VM back to on prem.We would like to just test the failover, spin-up the VM to test it, and then simply delete it. we do not want to sync back to on-prem. We just want to power on the on-prem after the test failover and be back to normal.Is it possible in Commvault? How would I do that?Thanks very much in advance for your help.

1 year ago

jegoByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

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?

1 year ago

MOGFREYByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Kubernetes full application restore error: RequestEntityTooLarge

Hi Team, Trying to carry out a kubernetes full application restore but receiving the above error: Please find attached logs for the job. But specific error is at this line:191738 2ed50 12/06 11:39:31 416776 CK8sInfo::CreateApp() - App creation failed for [bpr-financial-enquiries`HelmChart`bpr-account-getaccountinfo`e2f696f6-9425-4c75-a945-55b7580837c7] with error [0xECCC0016:{K8sCluster::ImportApp(550)} + {K8sApp::ImportConfig(1748)} + {K8sUtils::CreateResource(3481)/ErrNo.22.(Invalid argument)-[BUFFEROVERFLOW] create api failed with error: {"apiVersion":"v1","code":413,"kind":"Status","message":"Request entity too large: limit is 3145728","metadata":{},"reason":"RequestEntityTooLarge","status":"Failure"} name: unknown namespace: bpr-financial-enquiries config : apiVersion: v1

1 year ago

MOGFREYByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

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

1 year ago

Pavel Sorkin

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Commvault backup vm's on ESXi Standalone host

i have a standalone esxi host .i have a few VM’s that i can backup and few no .i started to investigate that issue , and i found in ESXi MOBthat on the VM’s that i can backup have instance UUID VM’s without instance UUID cant backup.can commvault backup stand alone host

1 year ago

brucquat

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Support of vSAN File Services

Hello, I would like to know if Commvault now supports the backup of vSAN File Services included with vSAN 7.I did not find anything clear in the Commvault documentation.BTW, Veeam supports it by adding a powershell script in the backup job.Many thanks, Regards.

1 year ago

GeorgeByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Best Practice How to Backup/Restore VMware vCenter VCSA Content Library (Emphasis: CONTENT LIBRARY)

What is Commvault's direction for correctly backing up vCenter Server Appliance [VCSA] and to include the Content Library metadata and library contents? The library contents are stored on a vSphere datastore and may include any type of file, including VM Templates Folders (containing .vmtx, .vmdk, .vmsn, .nvram files), .ova, .ovf, .iso, and other file types. So it would seem there needs to be a special backup subclient created to include all of the above contents (not just the Virtual Server Agent [VSA] default subclient).Perhaps VMware publishes the API and Commvault has a configured the VSA for this task? But I can't find any documentation in Commvault’s extenstive Expert documentation site.More background: Recently we had reason to backup and restore the vCenter 7.0 U2 VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) during a new vSphere installation with Cisco and VMware support. At their direction I used the VMware built-in VCSA Backup/Restore functionality. After restoring, noticed that the Conte

1 year ago

lborekByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Vanilla k8s etcd backup

Hi. Vanilla k8s 1.23 cluster and etcd backup : 34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 vsAppMgr::GetSubClientFilters() - VM Filter: []34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 vsJobMgr::initBackupMetadaCollectionDefault() - IndexingV2 is enabled. Metadata collection is not supported.34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 ::GetSubclientDir() - The subclient directory is [/opt/commvault/iDataAgent/jobResults/2/2106].34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 CvUCS::init_static() - Native charset="UTF-8".34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 CvUCS::init_static() - Great! This system is using ISO/IEC 10646 character set for wchar_t. We will not be using iconv() API and will be converting between MBE and UTF/UCS using C MBR functions.34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 CvUCS::init_static() - MBE happens to be UTF-8. Will use strcpy for MBE<=>UTF-8 conversion.34816 8800 11/25 04:28:33 4570483 CK8sInfo::Connect() - Connecting to server:https://1.1.1.1:644334816 8800 11/25 04:28:35 4570483 CK8sInfo::Connect() - kubernet

1 year ago

Lukasz AByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

VADP backup takes a long time when manually created snapshot already exist

Hi,We've noticed that when snapshot exist on VM we have performance issue. Backup of VM which normally takes 5 minutes could takes more than 5 hours. Sometimes it can takes 24 h and failed. When we have changed transport mode from SAN/Hot Add to NDB then backup takes 10 minutes. Is that normal when other manually created snapshot already exist? Is it limitation of VADP API? Is there any recommendation and best practices for VADP backup?Regards,Lukasz

1 year ago

LeenaByte

asked in Virtualization and Containers

Enabling Specific AMI IDs for Restores in command center is not working

I am unable to manually enter the AMI ID in command center, whereas I am able to do the same from CommCell console. I followed the below links to define additional settings for restoring Marketplace AMI Ids.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.26/expert/145983_enabling_specific_ami_ids_for_restores_and_replication.htmlhttps://documentation.commvault.com/11.26/expert/8681_adding_additional_setting_from_commcell_console.html and restarted the services, but still unable to manually add the ami-id in restore option from Command center. In commcell console, it allows to manually enter the ami-id

1 year ago

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