Virtualization and Containers

Dear can you please help me on this i am getting this on version running 11.28.68,Error Code: [91:145]Description: Unable to write data to the Virtual Disk [[NFS1] DENEUPRINT02_DR/DENEUPRINT02_DR.vmdk]. Please ensure that the proxy is able to communicate with the virtual machine host and that there is sufficient disk space available. Details: [One or more errors occurred while processing the request. (ERROR_ERRORS_ENCOUNTERED.774), Failed to write to vmdk (W32.774) (CV.0x1)]Source: deneucvma02, Process: vsrstNote: sufficient disk space is available

Hi,we use Commvault Simpana 11.20.36 and we have two Virtual Agents to backup our vSphere VMs.On the first enviroment the transport mode for VMWARE is set to auto.In the reports i can see that the transport mode for backup handles out SAN, the other enviroment only NBD.https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=32037.htmWhat can be the reason that the one environment does not save in san mode?Could it be a reason that in san zoning the esxi hosts of each cluster cannot see the media agent?RegardsDennis 

Hello All.  We have 4700 VMs with a couple dozen backups sets where I need to exclude VMs that don't require a backup.  e.g. AD, DNS, VDI, etc.  I know I can manually open each backupset and create a VM Filter, but I'm thinking there's a better way.It would be great to have a "global filter" for VMs similar to WinFS and LinuxFS clients.Is there a way to utilize PowerShell or CV CLI?Or is there some other way I’m not thinking and I’m making this harder than it needs to be?Thanks!DanPS after typing this I'm thinking I should have less backupsets…  but still interested in your thoughts.  :)

Hi, the customer has two locations. A and B. On both we have separate media agents with library attached. Media agents between locations don’t have any communication and we can’t change it.He was doing VSA VM1 backup on location A. They have migrated VM1 to location B and started backup. Full backup is working fine but during incremental we have problem with restoring indexes. During incremental backup the job tries to restore index from location A to the index cache on media agent B. As there is no communication between them we’ve got an error and the job failed. What can we do about it? Can we somehow recreate index on media agent B? Regards,Lukas 

Dear teamWe need a confirmation or explanation for the following restore issue. IntelliSnap Backups are running every 6 hrs.Only the last daily “full” is selected to be backup copied to a disk library.For NAS and Virtualization IntelliSnap backups, an incremental backup Job is interpreted as full.As  the result the last IntelliSnap Backup of the day is selected to be backup copied. Consultant did a Full VM restore from the copy available on the disk library but after the completed restore, the virtual machine did not come up. Since only every 4th backup is moved to disk library, he’d expect, that an incremental backup copy uses the last completed backup copy as reference point for the backup copy.But for him it looked as if the incremental backup copy is referencing the latest Snap Backup instead. Please confirm:Commvault needs the data of ALL incremental snap backups to enable a consistent restore. An incremental backup copy can only be used for restores, if all snap backups, between

Hello Experts,I am trying to backup an instance in openstack on cinder volume. Getting below error Insufficient cinder quota for instance, Failed to meet minimum 10 percent available quota limit. Available: 8157 GB, Required: 30924 GB, In-Use: 301091 GB (out of 309248) As you see, my cinder volume is 300 TB of which current free is 8 TB. Commvault is trying to check 10% free space and fails. I know in vmware we can decrease the threshold check, I am unable to find this for openstack virtualization? I just need to backup a small instance (few GBs) hence if there is a way to reduce threshold for space check please share

HelloRecently our Windows VSA proxies started to bluescreen during backup when we are using HotAdd as transport Mode. Switching to NBD works fine, but is a lot slower.Happens in 2 different ESX cluster running both vSphere 7.3 and 8The server BSOD with messageHYPERVISOR_ERROR (20001)The hypervisor has encountered a fatal error.Arguments:Arg1: 0000000000000013Arg2: 0000000000000000Arg3: 0000000029b92701Arg4: ffffe800005492c0 Anyone else experienced recent issues with HotAdd backups?  

 Hi guys,How to restore a VMware virtual machine to a previous date? Could you help me, please?  

I have pulled the reports from the cloud on schedules but they don’t seem to report on VMs, since they don’t have an agent. I see the Virtual Center and the VM groups in each of them. But, I have been asked for a list of all VMs and the schedules they belong to. Is this something that we can do?

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.

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.

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

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. 

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 

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.

We have six Azure site, each site has 3 or 5 subscription, plan to do agentless backup for Azure VM in each site and each subscription, what is the best practice to deploy commvault server and VSA?

I’ve had this problem for years with 2012, 2016, 2019 and now Azure Stack HCI clusters where, if there’s been some sort of blip on the network or with a particular host, that we can get increasing numbers of non __GX_Backup named (normal named) .avhdx files at every backup on a small percentage of VMs (not the same VMs each time and problem is intermittent).The disks show as differencing but there are no checkpoints listed on Hyper-V manager and this usually requires downtime to consolidate the disks by restore to fix it.Commvault support advised they’ve never seen this particular issue before and that have always said that it’s a Microsoft issue but I wondered if anyone else had ever seen it.I don’t have the issue with non clustered VMs where the backup type is set to “File System and Application Consistent” instead of “Crash Consistent” like it is on the clusters.I think the issue is probably more related to the clusters than the backup type but am not sure.  If I do change the backu

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 

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  

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!

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. 

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.

Hi everyone.We are facing a Commvault Backup implementation of a VMware Environment over Nutanix Cluster. Our initial idea is to perform NAS Transport Mode or HotAdd mode so as to avoid NBD and get more backup performance.On Commvault side we see that it’s fully soported (we treat this kind of Backup as it was a regular VMware deployment at Commvault level).The thing is that we have found on a Nutanix Document (attached) that it’s a Best Practice to implement NBD backups once protecting VMware VMs with Streaming mode, as you can see in the capture below:  We suppose “that performance issues” refer to too much I/O on Distrubuted DataStore of NTX environment. We have checkd on other environments that HotADD mode works and “apparently” no impact has been seen. Does anyone has faced a similar scenario? and in that case, was NBD implemented? Regards and thanks for your help!

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. 

Hi All,I am using Kubernetes Openshift. When Im trying backup some namesapces fails. as the following. THe applications are up and working fine.