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JoergRBit
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VSA failed to Collect File Details while Windows Recovery Partition Typ 27 ist present

Hello all, we have a problem to browse “Guest Files an Folders” of VMs using Bios with MBR Partitions where a Recovery Partition with ID 27 is present. [MsgId[0x0e0000f4][Failed to initialize browse request. Check Browse.log on CommServe for more details.]: [1] Args Pushed, [0] Args expected. If i change the Partition ID from 27 to 07 and rerun the backup browsing within this backup is no problem. If i turn it back to 27 and rerun the backup job, browsing is impossible. Commserve and MediaAgents are on Version 11.22.62, our primary Backup target is a Falconstor VTL.

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Mike Struening
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VMware Disaster Recovery

Hi all, I’m looking to configure Disaster Recovery for VMware. The documentation and the configuration is quite clear. I am perplexed by the configuration of the VM network, in particular the mapping of the source network to the destination network. When I configure the recovery target (destination vCenter) it’s possible to configure only one target network, instead of having the possiblity to configure a complete mapping of all existing networks. The only way I found to configure the network mapping is to do it VM for VM, network adapter for network adapter, making the configuration impossible if in front of hundreds/thousands of VM. Is there any way to configure it globally? Are there any possibility to implement this functionallity in the future releases? Thanks Fabrizio

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Mike Struening
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JohanaByte
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Full Backup Physical Server

Is it possible to make a full backup of a physical server in order to be able to restore it on my vCenter? 🤔

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Commvault Engineer
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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.

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Raj BalarajByte
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Restore from SnapVault Error

Error I get the above error when try to restore from secondary snap volume. May i know why it cant get snapshot information stored in DB at first place?

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chris_ahnByte
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Unable to attach disks to virtual machine

I try vm restore. restore source : 182-ash-window destination 184-vm-test but advise please Thank you

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AgroBit
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Nutanix AHV and Commvault compatibility

Hello, We have CommServe Version: 11.24.34 and Nutanix AHV cluster with AOS 5.15.1.1 LTS We want to upgade this Nutanix AHV cluster to AOS 5.20.5.3 LTS version I would like to know if Commvault software is compatible with this version of Nutanix Cluster I saw this documentation and it seems to be compatible. Am i right? System Requirements for Virtual Server Agent with Nutanix AHV (commvault.com) Thanks for your time

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
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Egor SkepkoByte
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Upgrading VSA V1 to V2

Hello, I want to performe VSA upgrade to V2. We using 2 Vcenters with V1 indexing. What are the steps i need to do before using workflow VSA V1> V2 Do i need to add new vcenter first and then use the workflow? And what about the usage of storage. Do i need to have the same amount free storage that used for one Vcenter backup

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Thos GieskesByte
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can you backup a datastore's files only without VM?

hi, I was recently discussing with a customer. Their wish is to backup a Datastores files only like the folder marked red in below screenshot: this data is not presented to VM so I did not know of a way to do this. is there any way to backup that specific folder via a VSA backup? or will we need to present the data in a different way? thanks and kind regards, Thos Gieskes.

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ArthurBit
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Could Commvault make Windows VMs go into recovery mode?

Lately we are having several windows servers (6 until now in the past 2 weeks) getting into recovery mode. By coincidence the only thing that we updated lately was the commvault version to 11.25.19. Could commvault be causing windows to enter recovery mode?

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Mike Struening
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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
Onno van den BergCommvault Certified Expert
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VMware UUID / duplicate client computers

We just started the implementation of Commvault in a brand new VMware environment. Now I'm seeing already an increased amount of duplicate client computers in our environment causing some administrative nightmares and management challenges. So I started investigating it and discovered the UUID registration to differ from what I'm used to when comparing it to AWS. It appears the registered UUID in Commvault is actually the so called PersistentID/InstanceUUID and this one can't be tracked back from within the VM itself. The UUID that is shown from the OS corresponds to the VMware BIOS UUID. We installed some client agents first followed by the configuration of the VSA agent. Both are being used actively. Fixing duplicate client names is an annoying tasks, especially in MSP environments and I'm puzzled this hasn't been fixed by Commvault. Because when you would use the combination of Commvault client name + BIOS UUID and the name that can be read by the client including UUID than matching

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Mike Struening
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Michael SeickertByte
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Editing two different VSA subclients (Hyper-V or VMware) at the same time

Hi community, I am running a large Hyper-V and VMware setup and several admins are editing the subclients. When we edit two different VSA subclients (for the same VSA pseudo client) at the same time, we get an error message: → This property sheet is opened by ‘user1’ your changes may be overwritten by ‘user2’ and wenn the second user leaves the subclient after editing the changes are lost and we get the message: → There have been changes made to this subclient or backup set. Please refresh Commcell Console and resubmit your changes. From my point s not make sense. If this were two subclients in a File System Agent this would make sense, because these subclients affect each other. But in a VSA setup these subclients are/should be independend. And even more strange: I can edit the two subclients in the Command Center (aka VM-Groups) without an error. Is there any setting to avoid the “locking” of VSA subclients in the Commcell Console? Regards. Michael

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Mike Struening
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Anand KByte
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Fusion Compute Virtual machine's disk is showing only IDE/SCSI

Hello Team, We are taking Virtual machine’s backup in Huawei FusionCompute environment. In FusionCompute Virtual Machines virtual disk adapter is showing VIRTIO. But from Commvault restore of virtual machines showing IDE / SCSI option. Please advise.

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Mike Struening
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Anand KByte
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Huawei FusionCompute VM backup

Hello Team, We have configured Huawei FusionCompute VRM for virtual backup. There are physical Media agent servers, while running backup job is showing an error Ünable to read the virtual disks": Please advise, shall we use physical media agent server will use the virtual machine backup”

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Mike Struening
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streaming and intellisnap backups for vSAN datastore

In the following URL vSAN Support for the Virtual Server Agent with VMware (commvault.com), it is written “For Service Pack 11 and later, the Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides support for streaming backups, IntelliSnap backups, and restores of virtual machines on VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) datastores.” In the case of VMware vSAN, what is the difference between streaming & Intellisnap backups? Is the hotadd transport mode linked to Intellisnap backups and the NBD transport mode linked to streaming backups? Thanks & Regards

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LaurentByte
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VMWare ELM (Enhanced Linked Mode)

Hi ! We have 2 VCenter servers, let’s say VCenterA and VCenterB, each managing different VirtualDatacenters with multiple ESXi hosts on multiple sites, each hosting hundreds of VMs. We are using only one Commserve to backup the VMs hosted on each of the VCenters, and I have created a VMWare VSA client for VCenterA, and another one for VCenterB. Today my VMWare admin is telling me he would like to quickly use the VMWare Enhanced Linked Mode to be able to centralize his VCenters’ administration, perform operations between both VCenters like enhanced vMotion, and so on. I have searched the CV documentation site for ELM keyword or Enhanced Linked Mode, but found no result. What I fear is that after linking both VCenters, this would have an impact on the way my Commserve would report the VMs, being then able to ‘see’/discover the VMs of VCenterA in my VSA client for VCenterB, and see the VMs of VCenterB in my VSA client of VCenterA, for example. Has anyone experienced such operation ? I’m b

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AlexzyByte
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IS IT POSSIBLE TO BACKUP JUST VM DISK WITHOUT THE WHOLE VM

Please am face with this issue were a vm is about 23TB and the DB is current backup as database level Now my question here now is mgmt ask that even the vm must be backup what do i do now.

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liorkrispinBit
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Commvault doesn't remove snapshots after backup.

hi everyone, after regular snapshot backup the Commvault doesn't delete snapshots. As of this moment, the snapshot capacity is above 22T we are not working with IntelliSnap or some solutions, our vSphere version is 6.7u3 I would be happy for any help or suggestion. thank you!

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christopherlecky
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AaravRBit
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VMware VSA backups

Hi Experts, Are there any white papers I can read to learn more about how VSA vmware intellisnap and streaming backups work? I'm searching for a workflow and the process used to backup the vms. Thank you so much in advance.

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christopherlecky
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ChristineMVaulter
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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?

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christopherlecky
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TheseekerByte
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Hyper V backup failed only for one VM

i am having this issue wherein the VM level backup for this one VM is failing “The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. Please check the available free space and status of the volume being protected.” Other VMs are fine. we are on SP22 ; unfortunately this has just gone out of support; however we are booking at time to upgrade to SP24; although I am not sure if being on SP22 affects the backup as other VMs are working okay. Although support did advise that if we do not upgrade; they would not be able to troubleshoot the issue further.

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Top JimmyBit
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Amazon virtual server subclients: automatic back up any new vms added to the region

When I add a new subclient for Amazon vms and for content I select a region, will it automatically back up any new vms added to the region? The subclients do not have the “all unprotected vms” option. Thanks

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Aplynx
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JohanaByte
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Backup to Tape from VMDK with Agent

Hello! A customer is asking us to backup one of his disks (F:). He wants the raw VMDK copy to be made and saved to LT07 tape. Please, could you tell us how to do it? Thank you very much!Best regards

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Jeremy FisherBit
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new to M$ Hyper-V Backups, looking for help or guidance

For the most part, we use VMware… in our 2 Data Centers We have Remote Branch Offices (17), that will be getting new Physical Servers, that will run M$ Hyper-V on them. We will have 2 Virtual Servers under each Hyper -V Server. One of the VM’s will be running Servers roles (DFS, SCCM distro points, and DHCP). The other will be for File storage (user and Groups files). From the CommServe Console, I have installed the CV Client on the Physical server. Looking for High level planning on how to back up this Model…. Do I install the CV Client on the VM’s too?

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
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xiwenByte
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replication protocol

we plan to migrate on-premise Vmware server to Azure and AWS, our network team want to know which protocol will be used for the activity, prefer to use TLS.

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