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From time to time there are those that have backups for clients that were once protected by pre-V11 agents that have since been unlicensed and protected by classic v1 indexed VM backups. There are odd occasions when this Known Issues for VMware VM-Centric Operations (commvault.com) gets me tripped up when I want to move to VM Centric, but it becomes a show stopper because of the number of agents that would have to be rolled out and then release the license on each one. I’d love to know if there is a way around it, like doing an offline client update; or where possible, batch rename the hostname of the pre-V11 clients so a new virtual client object is created?
I have a question regarding the File Indexing for Advanced reporting and search in Command Center. It’s not 100% clear for me after reading docs online.Let’s assume I enable indexing on one VM group. I understand that the MA associated with the storage policy used to backup this VM group will automatically have some roles installed and become index server.Now let’s assume I enable indexing on a different VM group where I use a different MA for backup. What will be the behaviour:Will a second, separate index instance be created? I will have two separate MA index servers and two separate indexes? Will I have a second indexing “node”, but the index will be shared between MA1 and MA2?
Hi all,We have a customer who needs to restore a large VM (multiple disk and TB’s).This job runs for days and than ends with Failure Reason: Unable to modify the VMX file for restore of virtual machine [vm-name]. Attempt start error: [The parameter is incorrect., Port passed is not valid. [0/0]. (W32.87)] We did not find out why, but customer would like to see that the disks restored are not automatically deleted. Is there a way in Commvault?Does the additional setting SkipDeleteVm also apply on “regular” VM restore or only on Virtualize Me?And would an Service account with no delete be an outcome or does this have to many side effects?Already my thank in advance. Danny
Greetings,I have configured AWS backups under FR11.22 and the backups are running as HOTADD instead of using the new EBS Direct Read APIs.We are using an IAM Role method on the VSA, and the following Allow EBS permissions are have been added for “Resource : *”"ebs:GetSnapshotBlock","ebs:ListChangedBlocks","ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks",However, the follow appears in vsbkp.log.31965 7d01 04/13 18:23:52 215259 AmazonCompute::CheckPermissions() - Action: [ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks] EvalDecision: [implicitDeny]31965 7d01 04/13 18:23:52 215259 AmazonCompute::CheckPermissions() - Action: [ebs:GetSnapshotBlock] EvalDecision: [implicitDeny]31965 7d01 04/13 18:23:52 215259 CAmazonInfo::CheckDirectReadPermissions() - Insufficient permissions for EBS direct read31965 7d01 04/13 18:23:52 215259 CAmazonInfo::SelectMountMode() - Selected Mode: [HOTADD] What am I missing ? :)
Hi,Last week, I restored a full VM whose IP is DHCP assigned, but fount out that, after the restore, its MAC address was changed.According to support, it’s normal because the MAC address is assigned by VMware, so, unless the original VM was deleted prior to the restore, VMware would always assign a different MAC address to the restored VM.The issue is, users who ask for a VM restore don’t usually want to delete the original one prior to the restore, not until they check the restored one to see if it works…Strange thing to me is that, in Netbackup, when I do a full VM restore, the MAC address is not changed, regardless the original one is present or not… So, I just wonder if there is a hidden switch somewhere in the restore setting that does the trick ? Or it is indeed the case that Commvault works differently to Netbackup in this scenario ? Thanks,Kelvin
Checking my license abilities - i see where i have plenty of Virtual licenses. however when adding a vmware client I am getting this message after I authenticate. I do have an open ticket with MA , but also wanted to check here to see if anyone else has had this issue.
HiI plan to migrate my commcell running on a standalone server 2012 to vmware.my plan is to : 1: Do a DR copy (in case of utter failure)2: shutdown all commvault services and sql + set services to not auto start.3: do the p2v migration, and shutdown physical machine.4: boot up virtualized commcell, and set up ip to match original machine.5: start commvault services (set to autostart)that should work right?my concerns are these : Performance. is there a tool to or something to help determine if the server can be virtualized without it taking to big of a performance hit ? fall back, if performance is determined to be to bad after some time, is the correct way to fall back to do a dr copy from the virtualized commcell, shut that instance down, and recover the dr copy to the original machine ?
Can a VMWARE VM be restored retaining its original UUID?
Hello,Hypervisor is VMWare 6.7VMs are windows server 2019Media Agent is a linux one, with VSA installed. Full VM backup/restore are easily performed.But for granular restore (live browse) from the VSA backup of a VM, a Windows VM is required. It have difficulties to find documentation (or best practices) regarding the deployment/configuration of this VM. Simple questions, like which packages to deploy on it… Surely MediaAgent, but only this one?. A lot of documentation exists when the MediaAgent is running Windows and the VM is linux, as the FREL is available to download, or even how to install a MediaAgent over a linux VM and convert it to FREL. But when the OSes are reversed, I’m lost. Has anyone information to share (at least to me ) ?
Hello, We want to enable self user restores in our company. We are wondering how other Commvault customers have implemented this and what were the challenges. Are you using Command Center or api’s? How are you letting users to restore VM backups? It would be really helpfull to hear your suggestions. We are currently looking at Command center and API options.Thank you!
