Virtualization and Containers

Hi All.In a scenario where you have Vmware snapshot backups of AD servers (2016/2019), would it be possible to do a Vmware restore of the server, and get it up and running again, if one AD server out of two has crashed? Are there any considerations or things that have to be done after the restore, before its working as a domain controller in a pair of two domain controllers again ? Or what would best practice be on a AD server running in vmware? Regards-Anders

Hi,In the Command Center, unlike the Commcell Console, there are not all types of restore.Obviously I log in on both consoles with the same company and the same user. 

Dear community,I am trying to restore an ec2 instance to VMware on premise.Actually we do that manually but if I can do it by Commvault that will be very helpful.here is the log file for the restore job The VM is created on VMware but I think that the transfer of data is not done correctlymore informations.on premise we do direct SAN transport mode.when I cross restore if I leave the default settings it uses the nbd mode.   Thanks !!  -------------------------------------sample errors :4184  2848  09/22 13:27:01 147179 10-# [DM_BASE    ] IncrOvlThds: Changed Simulated Ovl pool thread count. Max=32, Min=4, Limit=64, Rdrs [1]4184  33c8  09/22 13:27:01 147179  [DEVICE_IO] DirectReadFile() - Error:  Message: The operation is not valid for the object's storage class4184  358   09/22 13:27:01 147179 10-# [DM_BASE    ] SyncWithReadAheadThread:

Hello, We have a kvm server, running virtual machines, Is there a way to backup the VMs and not just the file system? in order to be able to restore a vm and not just the files. thanks.

Hi all, Trying to perform a Application Aware backup of a virtual server that is running a SQL instance. Already installed the commvault agent with the following options:FileSystem FileSystem Core SQL Serverwhen running a VM level backup with the option Application Aware selected, the job shows the following message: No applications were found that are eligible for Application Aware backup.Treating this as a success. Can anyone help sort this out? thanks   

The server admins are considering bitlocking VM machines and maximizing security. My assumption is the best way is a regular VMware backup without an agent being installed.If they ever wanted to do a restore, then restore to whole guest and leave to the server admins to copy from the restored guest back to the source. The boxes are medium to small sized Ques: At restore time is CV capable of creating a browsable contents of a bitlocked VM guest?Storage is disk, will doing live recovery contents generation 

In customer environment there is a network separation in place. There are 3 VLANs1) VLAN1 - vcenter / esxi host management2) VLAN2 - MediaAgent / backup network3) VLAN3 - NFS storage networkESXi hosts are configured in VLAN1 (management network) and VLAN3 (NFS storage network)MediaAgent is configured in VLAN2 and VLAN3 (NFS transport mode)This works great for backups and restores, but since VLAN3 is not routed a LiveMount feature does not work - an ESXi host can't mount NFS from MediaAgent. AFAIK that is because since VLAN3 is the storage network, ESXi host will try to mount NFS using that network. Unfortunately it cannot reach main MediaAgent NIC in VLAN2 (that is a network interface that MA hostname is resolved to). Switching to MA NIC in VLAN3 is also not the answer since it is not routed and can't reach ESXi host management in VLAN1. Since it is a Commvault ↔ VMware traffic DIPs also cannot be used.A solution could be if there i

HelloI have a Windows 2008R2 VM files servers of 18TB that I backup by VM only with a name XXI will change the server by another VM windows 2019 with a name XY that I will copy the files (18 TB)When the copie is done I will close VM - XX and rename VM XY in XX.How the deduplication will handel the copied data in the back end ? I have 14TB off free space.What is the best way to backup a large VM like that. Continue by VM backup or switch to File system backup with CV Agent ?Thanks in advanceSL 

Hi all, Maybe a silly question, but if a bunch of files exist on one VM and are copied to another VM, are they deduplicated against each other? Or are they considered unique? In this example, Hyper-v backups with cbt on 2012 hosts, crash consistent.VM01\E:\Docs\ has 10,000 word documentsVM02\F:\Files\ has exactly the same 10,000 word documents VM01 is Windows Server 2008R2VM02 is Windows Server 2012 Thanks all.

Hi Team,I have an environment with three big virtual machines, aprox 30Tb each one, I have configured a subclient for each one. The last synthetic jobs are requiring to much time and during this time (more than 100 hours) the daily incremental jobs are queued. Do you know if there is any possibility to avoid it? in other words, is it possible to run both, the Synthetic full and incremental jobs, simultaneously?Thank you

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Hello,I have commvault backup server and two media agents, one media agent installed on backup server and other installed on a special machine. I have installed vsa server and FRE server separately on each machine on Citrix virtualization.Before the backup of the virtual machine was placed on a media agent that is on citrix virtualization.I have now backed up the virtual machine successfully but to the Tape library via another media agent.When I do a restore from a virtual machine I have an error Best regards,Elizabeta   

Hello,I am looking for best method/practices to perform the backup & restore of the infrastructure as detailed below.VMWare environment with Datastores coming from NetApp storage.NetApp LUNs are also presented to ESXi servers and mapped to multiple Linux VMs (generally 4 VMs) as RDM LUNs in the physical compatibility mode. OS can see the LUNs as Direct Access LUNs.4 x VMs are in Clustered environment running Veritas Cluster. The clustered file system are on either of the node at a time and application run from that node.We are not using IntelliSnap, even if I configure IntelliSnap (NetApp) I think taking image level backup of the VM including RDM LUNs would not be sufficient.Thanks in advance for your response.Regards,Jaspreet

I am trying to make sure that all the backup copies finsih successfully without making the overall media agent slow.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/101443_turning_off_parallel_backup_copy_capability.htmlI have Subclients 1,2,3,4,5,6 datastores going to SP copies (snap, disk, tape).I want to make sure that the backup copies run serially. So have created a schedule to start the backup copy job automatically every 120 minutes. Do I need the above key or the backup options setting → No of Jobs to Run: No. of Simultaneous Jobs to run =1 > Run all the backup copy jobs serially? Will this also affect the synthetic fulls backups so that they are triggered one after the other every 2 hours? 

Hi, I will be very appreciate for help. Could not start server after restoring from Commvault backup > https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/essential/87275_restoring_full_virtual_machines_for_vmware.htmlDuring the recovery process, a virtual machine with disks is created, but when the machine is started, the machine is reconfigured, as a result of which the server does not start and only the recovery windows mode appears.Windows server 2012 R2 version being restored. VMware ESXi 7.0.1Also backup is fine - I try form another backup and see the same problem I find error : Entering Required Firewall Settings for the VSA with VMware -  but backup is working so it nor problem with connection. Extra information from logs:The Windo

Hi, Does anyone know if Commvault version 20 till 25 is compatible with vmware 7.0.3?Or is it better to wait for a few weeks? Thanks, Danny

Hello,I have installed Simpana 11.20 on commvault backup server srvbck (on this machine is also installed media agent which serves backup on Tape library)Also I have four virtual machines, vsa-agent (which is installed on Citrix virtualization platform) and another media agent htmmediaagent1 which serves backup virtual machines.The backup is located at the htmmediaagent1 server location.I should add more virtual machines(which are located on different virtualization platforms) for backupon the Tape library. Then another media agent would be used for backup srvbck… My question is:Do I need to have another vsa agent installed (on other virtualization) to back up virtual machines to the Tape library?Do I need to have a separate all agents installed on for each virtualization?Thank you!Best regards,Elizabeta     

Can someone confirm from Commvault that in the case where DASH fulls are ran along with incrementals and the tape copy is synchronous, does the aux copy job (from disk to tape) essentially make it possible to restore any VM to the point it was last backed up, regardless of whether a full or inc happened last? Meaning it does not have to stitch together all sorts of incs. but rather takes the guesswork out of it so similar to restoring from disk, whenever you tell it to restore “to” those incremental jobs seen in the tape copy are essentially “fulls”? This is what I see when browsing media and comparing full jobs to inc’s - same exact file sizes and content for each VM. I didn’t think the intelligence was in there but at the rate the tapes are being consumed, it does indeed seem like every inc is basically converted to a full before writing to tape.Is that observation correct? If so, that is perfect.thanks

OVF Properties backup possibility in commvault? 

Hi, We are having a problem with our Netbackup setup with HotAdd mode to backup our VMware, i.e. if the Proxy Server takes more than 4 VMs to backup at the same time, loads of VMs would fail with the below error messages.“Error opening the snapshot disks using given transport mode: hotadd Status 23” In other words, this Proxy Server can backup no more than 4 VMs at the same time. OK, I admit that this is a problem in our Netbackup environment but I feel that I may get some help by posting this question here in Commvault forum because Firstly, the reason why we are testing this HotAdd transport mode within Netbackup environment is because we intend to deploy the same technology in the coming months in our another backup environment which is Commvault. Also, at the moment, the Netbackup support seems to be at their wits’ end (which does make me feel a bit di

Hi, today customers are more and more thinking about hybrid solution. We got the following question: “We would like to implement an hybrid environment (one DC & AWS). In the DC, we have some physical Windows/Linux computers. In case of DR, would it be possible to convert those physical computers to Virtual machines in AWS from a backup residing in AWS?”.Well, in the Commvault documentation, I saw that the possibility exists to convert physical Windows machines to Azure (Virtualize Me). Are there any plans to convert AWS (also for physical Linux computers)?Thanks.

Is this possible or any better ideas?Problem: Remote office with a small VMware setup where CV agents on clients not permitted.  If agents could be installed it would be a simple case of client-side deduplication so they could be backed up remotely. To get deduplication happening would it possible to use a VM-proxy at the remote site send backup data to the data center?   The idea would be:Remote ESX → Remote Proxy …..can’t be deduped because no agent to do itRemote Proxy → data center media agent ….deduped on the proxyRestore will be obviously fully hydrated...they are prepared to live with.

Hi Guys, I have a question. Is any way to filter RDM disks that are added to VM that is a  part of oVirt environment? The Customer is getting the following error during backup job:  I cannot see any Disk Filter option in Subclient Properties.  BOL doesn’t say anyting about diks filters, too. https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=31946.htm Is any way to exclude RDM disk, so the Customer may be sure that the backup of VM is fine? Anyway, I can see that backup status is Completed with on or more errors.  Does it mean that the VM was completely backed up and only RDM disks were ignored / skipped? Rgds,Kamil

Hello,I am running CommVault V11SP20.55.I want to deploy FREL servers with Ansible  but I do not found the keyword to change the root password during installation, this the playbook which I use:If anyone can help my will be great, or do have anyone the initial password which is in the OVA configured?thanks in advanceregards Jürgen

Hi team, Any one of you see the below error during VSA backup and have any fix to resolve it.Error Code: [91:113]Description: Unable to read the disk [[xxx-xxx-vsan] 14a57660-80d1-fa35-41cc-246e96388498/abn-xxx.xxxx_4.vmdk] for virtual machine [xxx-xxx] on Host [yyyyy]. [One or more errors occurred while processing the request. (ERROR_ERRORS_ENCOUNTERED.774), Failed to ReadCurrVmdkFile (W32.774)]Source: zzzz, Process: vsbkp Thanks