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Test failover for Auto-Recovery for VM - Live Mount only?

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  • MaciekCommvault Certified Expert
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Hello

 

I need to provide an isolated/test environment (with IP masquerading etc.) to perform set-of-VMs restores on regular basis (like Veeam SureBackup)

 

For Command Center I can use Auto-Recovery feature with “Test Failover” option but as far as I can see we can only use Live Mount (https://documentation.commvault.com/11.38/essential/testing_failover_for_periodic_replication_group.html)

How to perform such isolated & automated test with regular streaming restores instead of Live Mounts? Production/source VMs should remain online and untouched during the test.

 

I am aware that I can achieve something like this with old-fashioned Virtual Lab managed by deprecated CommCell Console https://documentation.commvault.com/11.38/expert/creating_restore_as_lab_policy_for_vmware.html, but I want to follow brand new Command Center ;)

 

Any thoughts or findings will be appreciated.

 

Kind regards,

eMF

 

 

 

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    Vaulter
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    • Jace RossVaulter
    • Vaulter
    • 26 replies
    • March 27, 2025

    Hi Maciek,

    What do you mean when you say live motion? Are you referring to VMWare’s vMotion or Commvault’s Live Mount?

    Auto Recovery with periodic replication will restore a VM to another location, adding incremental changes as per your scheduling and can have a test failover run against it.

    It should meet all your requirements unless I am missing something.

    https://documentation.commvault.com/11.38/essential/periodic_replication_group_options_for_vmware.html

    Jace Ross, Senior Technical SME
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    • MaciekCommvault Certified Expert
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    • 8 replies
    • March 28, 2025

    Hello

    I mean CommVault Live Mount of course :) Sorry for confusion

    J
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    • Jace RossVaulter
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    • March 30, 2025

    Hi Maciek,

    For test failovers, unfortunately there is only a live-mount method for VMWare.
    Depending on your testing needs you could look at doing a failover and failback for testing but beyond that there isn’t much else for failover testing. It may be worth speaking with your account manager if you would like a different method added to Commvault.

    Jace Ross, Senior Technical SME

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