Virtualization and Containers

I am receiving the following error in the backup of a Hyper-V VMError code: [91:148]Description: There are too many existing backup snapshots on virtual machine [ServerName]. Backup snapshots are being cleaned up, but manual intervention may be required to ensure that all snapshots are removed. This may indicate that the storage is unable to keep up with the I/O activity of the virtual machine during a backup.Source: cs0003, Process: JobManagerWhen I look in Hyper-V Manager, I see no checkpoints for this server, so I’m unsure how to resolve this.  I assume it’s possible it may resolve itself over time, but this has come up the last 2 backup cycles. 

Hello11.28.111We are migrating one of our VmWare clusters to Hyper-V (licensing grounds -  Broadcom)We have disk filters traditionally on our DB servers, that also do DB Agent backups, to save backing up the data twiceIn the subclient under Vmware, in the VM Disk Filters, you get a ‘Browse’ option, that allows me to select the SCSI ID of a serverIn the subclient under Hyper-V, no browse exists, just ‘Add’Now I can choose a ‘Virtual device node’, but that doesn’t seem to allow me to choose a client, so I assume this is globalThe other option is ‘Virtual Disk name’, which scares me, as this is why I use the SCSI ID, as my VM guys often move servers around, which would make this break!If anyone has experience and ideas on this subject of what we could do, it would be much appreciatedThanksMark 

Friends, We have a change of retention for the backup data of a set of VM backups: we don’t need the month and year backups anymore.The retention was never changed within our Plans, but we only stopped to make the monthly and yearly backups, so it’s not changing the aging process, because the existing month and yearly backups will stay with their current duration. Now we want to delete these monthly and yearly backups, but I can’t find a how...We prefer to do this via Rest-API calls if possible, as we speak about a lot of VM…. Can anyone help us with this? Thanks in advance, Maurice

Hi everyone,I’m planning to convert virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V using Commvault’s “VM Conversion” feature. The official documentation https://documentation.commvault.com/11.42/commcell-console/converting_from_vmware_to_hyper_v.html mentions that a Windows Server 2012 R2 host is required as the destination system. Is this requirement still valid, or is there support for newer Windows versions? best regards,Andreas

Hi Team,We are using 11.32 version with CS/MA/VSA on same 1132.59.We have Redhat Openstack configured as Hypervisor.We maintain minimum 10-20% free space in storage for snapshot during backups.We observed there is one Instance with Volumes attached of size 10TB.it is strange that Backup job is looking for 20TB free space on the storage for taking snapshot.Is this requirement of Openstack or requirement of Commvault ? It does not make sense why it needs twice the size of Volumes for snapshots.Evidence is attached. Can this be check with Commvault development team ? I can raise a case if that is needed.But support asks logs and other stuff which takes long time.I just need confirmation from CV if this is normal? 

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? 

During a case a question comes up. A big VSA environment with more than ten subclients. Template VMs should generally be filtered out.That is easy in Commcell Console. I set the filter on backup set level and this works for all subclients.How can I do this in Command Center?Setting all VSA filters on subclient level seems to be a step backwards in product development. I found topics in community but it does not fit for me.Thanks in AdvanceJoerg

We are using a 100M line, and we are currently using a single network to an external DR host as well as a backup.Due to network traffic issues, we had to limit the speed of backups.After looking up the TN, we found that Commvault can be set up the same as QoS using the network throttling function.We understand that this feature will be applied on a policy basis, but we are currently unable to find a place to apply this policy to DRVMs.I'll be waiting for any your comments.Regards

Hello,we tried to backup VMs created without disks, the VMs are booting with PXE. The backup was not successful. I do not have any further details at the moment, but is it possible to backup these VMs? Thank you.Regards,Thomas

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?

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, I am trying to restore a vmdk and attach it to the VM. Was able to do it successfully on the web console.  I also downloaded the EQUIVALENT API.  How do I use the “EQUIVALENT API” for future restores  without using the web console ?I (preferably) want to use REST, but I couldn’t find the endpoint to run this restore. Does anybody know what the endpoint is ? Thanks in adavance!

hello everybody :)I’m deploying a new infrastructure with on prem Commserve and physical media agents, the customer wants to separate the backup data trafic to an isolated network.I configured the new interfaces for this vlan on each media agent and on the vmware hosts, i can ping everything on this dedicated network.I’m struggle to find how to configure Commvault to use this network for backups with data pair.Obviously I dont see the vmware host on the console, only the vcenter which the server used to initiate backups. So no hosts appears on the network pair wizard. Any recommendation? Do I need to add all hosts on the server list ?

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.

We are migrating VMs from VMware to Hyperv and after migration we are doing some changes in the backup configuration like creating multiple Virtualization clients for different Hyperv cluster, VMs are moved and backed up in to separate sub-client. My question is afterAfter migration from VMware to Hyper-V does the first backup converts to Full backup? If the sub-client is renamed does the next backup converts to Full or only if the clients are re-associated with different policy.

Hey legends, Hope you’re all doing great! Always appreciate the insights from this community. Got a quick one for you.We got Commvault VM replication running for a SQL VM with an RPO of 4 hours—kept it that way since it’s crash-consistent, and we already got SQL agent backups (t-logs every 15 mins + daily fulls) covering us. Need to run a bubble test, and Commvault suggested a test failover + SQL restore, but the failover VM spins up with the same IP as prod on an isolated network. cant move it to routable network as we can’t have it talking to AD/DNS since there’s no firewall or ACLs to block it, so we’re thinking of using a proxy with dual NICs: 1 on isolated network and one on MA/CS network This should let us restore SQL data to the test VM without ex

Dear ones, The client requests a survey of VM growth from January to date to find out how many are being protected month by month, do we have some kind of report that provides this information on the growth of Virtual Machines?

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

Helo team,Hello team,I have a problem when configuring Oracle Linux virtual manager, I have created a proxy (VSA) with Oracle Linux 8.5 OS but when I select the access node for the proxy it does not come out.Additional information proxy using VM installed in OLVM itself.Is there a requirement that is missing

Hello,Following our upgrade to version 11.36.46 (from 11.32), we have observed an unusual behavior during the browse and restore operations. The file systems are being randomly mounted either on the configured FRE or on one of the HSX nodes designated for server backup.Since the HSX nodes are still running on RHEL 7.9, the browse operation fails for clients that are on RHEL 8.*.We likely wouldn't have noticed this issue if the browse operation hadn't failed. Is this the expecetd way the system operates ?   Thanks

Hi, i believe that there is away to copy or make a shadow of a specific VM from comser to another one like active and passive, but unfortunately i don’t know how to perform that task.  

 Browse failed for : https://192.167.26.15:8443/OmsPortal/#/login Reason : Failed to connect to virtual machine host [https://192.167.26.15:8443/OmsPortal/#/login] as user [admin] from access node [consola2-he]. Please ensure that the access node is able to communicate with the host and that the user account and password are correct.

Hi,When browsing for items to select for restore in an Azure DevOps app, I can only select items of type “Repository” for restore. How should I be able to restore Azure DevOps Work Items, which as far as I know should also be included in the backup?Thanks

I've set up a proxy by installing VSA but the Opensatck Client can't communicate with the proxy's virtaul server.Are there any other specific packages to install on the VSA or should this one be included in the configuration files?My Commvault version is 11.32.83 How can i solve this

Hi All,Is there any way I can restore full virtual machine to a virtual access node if it is only access node in particular VMware environment. Because all Commvault services on this access node don’t start up after upgrading its software version to 11.32.69.  Thank you.