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Rahul NairByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Script/XML to delete VM from Subclient

I am looking for a command wherein i can just give VM Name and delete that VM from Subclient which has many VMs in it. Is there a command or an XML using which this can be achieved. Need to use it for decommission process.

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Vaulter
5 months ago
E
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EddiByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Media Agent on Azure Cloud not available as Proxy while restoring a VM

Hello,we are currently trying to restore a VM over a Media Agent sitting in a Azure cloud. The Media Agent sitting in the cloud has the VSA installed but can not be selected as Proxy Client in the “Restore VM” window. I was reading threw documentations and found this: Managing Proxies (commvault.com)the important part: Any machine where the VSA is installed can act as a VSA proxyAm I missing some settings?ThanksEddi

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E
Byte
1 year ago
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StanoBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Restore from azure VM to the same subsc. but keep original VM

Hi, can you please just confirm to me that if Im doing backup from azure VM and I will do a commvault restore complete virtual machines to azure but I would like to keep also the original VM:clear in place restore box set up new name for the restored VM rest can be as default after restore I will have also prod server and also the restored serverThank you!

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Vaulter
2 years ago
C
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ChuckCByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

AWS - Couchbase Backup with Commvault 11.28.36

We have an installation of Commvault 11.28.36 in an AWS environment.  There is only 1 Commserve servicing multiple VPC’s with each VPC having it’s own Media Agent(s) and S3 Bucket(s).  We have Couchbase installations in various VPC’s and currently we use the Couchbase backup utilities to dump the backups to EFS which are also mounted on the media agents.  From there, we do EFS backups to S3. We are interested in exploring the Commvault Couchbase backup process with targets to S3 and have a few questions:  Does Commvault Couchbase backup process just utilizes the Couchbase backup utilities?  Is there any document that provides technical details on the backup process? Currently, with the EFS backup, we are utilizing the Capacity Based License.  If we move to this Commvault solution, what license will it consume? I appreciate insight into to this. ThanksChuck

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C
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3 months ago
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xiwenByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

How to backup unattached Azure disk?

I have more unattached Azure disk which created ASR, no Azure VM to manage these unattached Azure disk, how to use Commvault to backup these disks?

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
1 year ago
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Keshav Sawant
asked in Virtualization and Containers

virtual machine is not view separately in virtual infrastructure group

Actually my question is , i have added vmare vCenter in commvault, but the virtual machine is not showing proper way. like not showing  left side navigation commcell windows. it is show vCenter tab then expand then virtual server then expand then default then double click and then contend tab and it is showing all virtual machine.don’t want this way.. want showing left side navigation window all virtual machine.How ? any process ?

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K
2 months ago
AndresLeo
AndresLeo
asked in Virtualization and Containers

DASH Copy recover

Hello Commvault community,Regarding the use of DASH Copy, I have the following question: If the MediaAgent where I store the primary copy is unavailable, can I recover with the copies I have on my backup site? Taking into account that the secondary copy only transfers unique data blocks. Thanks for your support!

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Alireza B
Vaulter
1 year ago
T
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TP_EricksonByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Would Clients Under an exchange dag have dags in their backups?

So in an effort to clean up our environment, we are trying to get our sla pushed to %97 and above. One of the issues is the clients that are part of the Exchange dag have no scheduled backups. My concern is that if I start backing up these clients, that they would be backing up the dags which is being backed up by our exchange backups that we are doing. Is the software smart enough to notice that the exchange client is part of an exchange cluster, and will not backup the dags which the exchange job is doing, or would i be double backing up dags if i started backing up the nodes as well? 

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Vaulter
3 years ago
downhill
Byte
downhillByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

limiting streams not per datastore but array

Hi guys, I am struggling to find a balance between stream and datastore limits for our environment which has many datastores and clusters on a shared flash array (using SAN transport). The VSA client also contains numerous remote sites all backing over over NBD, all of which funnel to the same MA/access node. The MA has plenty of resources but is fast enough to really hammer the array.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.21/expert/31115_performance_tuning_for_backups.html is what I’m referencing but I see no clear cut way to throttle TOTAL datastore streams hitting the SAN but not limit all the various NBD-based remote subclients. Meaning - I can’t limit the streams of the MA without impacting the run times of all those NBD clients because they take hours to complete in some cases. Basically what I’m looking for is a way to have the proxy/access node tell “hey, all these subclients and datastores reside on the same array, so limit total streams for all those combined SAN streams to s

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downhill
Byte
11 months ago
Nikos.Kyrm
Byte
Nikos.KyrmByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Virtual Machine(s) has been decommissioned alert

Hello Commvault community,I would like to talk about “Virtual Machine(s) has been decommissioned” alerts.I see that Commvault can understand when a VM is decommissioned.So, in order to safe a Commvault license for this decommissioned VM, I need to manual remove it from VM group or Commvault can handle that automatically?Moreover, it is also necessary to delete the history / previous VM backup jobs (for this decommissioned VM), so stop to consume Commvault VM license?Best regards,Nikos

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Vaulter
3 months ago
E
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EnzouByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

version upgrade

we are currently using 11.20 for our environment since this one is on LTS.if we upgrade on the newest version with LTS which is 2022e. do we need to purchase a new one or we can use the existing license that we have without paying additional?

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
11 months ago
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NoobvaultByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Unable to choose VMs and Templates in guest file and folders restore

Hello Community After updating CV to 2022E we are no longer able to choose VMs and Templates when we restore Guest file and folders.The only thing we can choose when choosing restore to virtual machine is the VM Cluters.Some people get the source VM chosen by default others only get an empty box and is forced to browse for the VM.Any ideas as to how we can fix this?

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N
Byte
1 year ago
G
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Gabriele PalumboByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Hide VMware Restore Type in Command Center

Hi all,Is there a way to hide some types of restores like “Live Mount and Live Recovery” in Command Center for a user? 

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Vaulter
2 years ago
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dgzagm4q4cvBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

How to set VM filters via CLI for Backupset or Subclient

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.  :)

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J
Byte
6 months ago
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BillBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Unix Proxy application - is it needed?

So recently we migrated our ESXi VMware VMs to a new vCenter and since then the VSA jobs have been failing to complete on and off and I have a single Unix appliance that is being used as a proxy so I don’t need it to manage the jobs but it is. How can I disable it from grabbing those jobs and I assume the VM snapshots will be managed by the media agents? Thanks.

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
2 years ago
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Alexey TesovBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Not able to execute Backup-CVVirtualMachine

Hi All,I am trying to run Backup-CVVirtualMachine -Name $vm -ClientName $vcenterbut receive thisI tried to reinstall CVPowershellSDK but it did not help me much, the error stills the same :( 

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A
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7 months ago
K
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Kim AndreByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

2 snapshots of the same vm during backup

We have some strange issues with vmware backup for one of our customer, from what i can understand it looks like commvault has told vmware to take 2 snapshots of the same vm with 30mins between them. we have then had issues with too many cvlt snapshots on the same servers and my initial guessing is that it’s due to what we see from the vmware side that the cvlt serviceaccount has taken 2 snapthots and only removed one after backup is ok. Has anyone here had the same issues before and fixed it?

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Vaulter
11 months ago
A
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Anders Trier RasmussenByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Kubernetes PVC volume backup

Hi I am trying to backup a Kubernetes PVC volume backup, but how do I get a list up so I can pick the correct PVC backup?I am not able to find any Commvault documentation on this “Value” that is needed. Thanks in advance!  

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Vaulter
2 months ago
S
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snydeed821Bit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Using Commvault VMWare Appliance to Install Commvault

I’m new to the Commvault world and tasked with researching, installing and configuring Commvault in our environment.   My aim is to gather as much information as possible prior to installing Commvault.   I’m currently taking an intro to Commvault course, but it appears this is a very complex piece of software.   My question is:   would it be prudent to deploy a VMware VM with the Commvault software pre-Installed by using the Commvault OVA (not HYPERSCALE X)?   Does anyone have experience using the appliance to get Commvault up and running in your environment?   If so, are there any “gotchas” I should be concerned about?   Any downside with updates to the appliance (e.g. new patches) or any other potential issues?   Any information is greatly appreciated.

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S
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2 months ago
T
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TonyQByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Indexing backups on DFSR HyperV servers are taking hours

We have network drives we backup on DFSR servers on Hyper-V servers, up until recently we could index the backups and pick files for restores.  This is now either timing out after many hours or we get the following error“Browse failed due to error while mounting virtual machine: Failed to mount VM for live browse” This is becoming a real issue for us because if we cant browse these files and folders then we have no way of restoring files for users, and as such our data protection is at serious risk

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
1 year ago
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TomasK
asked in Virtualization and Containers

move from veeam to commvault

hi guys, i decided, that i move my infrastrucutre backup from veeam to the commvault.  i have around 125 VM on VMware cluster ( 5 esx nodes). i the veeam i have a one bakcup job, after sucessfull backup the data is copied to the secondary location and every sunday is full backup (synthetic full) copied to the tape (Quantum Scalar i3 with 2x LTO 8 drives).  now i looking for a right way, how to migrate/move to the Commvault. I have already prepared a two physical servers, one is for the commcell and second is for media-agent (direct attached iSCSI 10 GbE 80 TB NTFS and 2x FC 8 GB to tape library.  i wanna to some best-practice :) its enought to have one VSA proxy in vmware or is best-practice to have on every esx host the proxy ?  from some years ago i know the commcell console, but now is only html5 console ?  how to setup the tape jobs and backup copy ? - aux copy its possible to create some tape media pool ?  its better to have a one backup job for all vm or separate it for app, app/

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Erase4ndReuseMedia
Byte
25 days ago
I
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ID_HelmyByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Where to install VSA to backup VM on GCP?

Where to install VSA to backup VM on GCP? and is there a document on how to install VSA to GCP? Please Advice, Thanks,Helmy

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Alireza B
Vaulter
1 year ago
J
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JoergByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

VSA restore issue from backup copy device

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

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J
Byte
6 months ago
J
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Joerg PauknerBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Does CV (11.28) support Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Hello, we are planning to install an Azure Stack HCI 23H2 cluster.Does CV (11.28) currently support this version for Backup and Recovery? I find in the documentation “Azure Stack HCI version 20H2 and more recent versions”.Thanks in advance.Jörg

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J
Bit
2 months ago
B
Byte
BatuhanByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Azure SQL client doesnt disvocer DB

Hi, I conifged Azure client with SQL Server agents but I cannot discover any DB in subclient. Client status ready and I didnot collect logs. What can I do? 

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Vaulter
1 year ago

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