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typer100Byte
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Retired VM not deleted automatically after rentention period

Hi. New to CV. I was under the impression that VM that have been retired would be deleted after their retention period.

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T
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53 minutes ago
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Ivan GalliVaulter
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Azure Replication - Virtual Network assignment

Hello everyone,I’m currently testing VM replication from Azure to Azure (CS SW 11.32)I’d like to know if leaving “Auto” in the Virtual Network setting in the Recovery Target, preserve the same network of the source vms to the replicated vms in case of planned/unplanned failover.Thanks and regards

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Vaulter
2 hours ago
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SSPByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Error Code: [91:115] Description: Unable to attach disks to virtual machine

We are restoring the Physical server to Azure using Virtualize me option. During the restoration we are getting below error message. Could someone please help me to fix the issue.  Error Code: [91:115] Description: Unable to attach disks to virtual machine   

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Mohamed Ramadan
1 day ago
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CarstenBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
"merging" vcenter

i am trying to do a running merger of two  vcenter clients in commvault.the issue is that both a live right now, and the move of vms/datacenters will take a lot of time (another team is doing that)the vcenters are called Vcenter1 (old) and Vcenter2 (new)my initial plan was to simply recreate all the backupsets from the old vcenter including all the filters, settings etc. on the new vcenter, that way backup would catch newly moved entities “automatic”  but that does not seem to be possible since we filter the content of each backupsets/subclient by the “datacenter” attribute,  which requires that the new datacenter is browseable from the new vcenter. (which it wont be until migration starts for that particular datacenter. so i am struggling to find a way to stay ahead of the curve.is there any way to clone contents (backupsets/subclients of vcenter1 “1:1” into vcenter2 ?except for naming, the configuration of both follow the same pattern.i have been looking into the “clone_subclient_tem

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Scott Moseman
Vaulter
4 days ago
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Ray DiackBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Hyper-V servers all appearing as media agents

Hi there, we’ve taken over an environment we did not install, and the client’s Hyper-V servers all appear to have the media agent role installed, and appear under the list of media agents, with disk libraries having mount points prepended with “IP” in front of the drive path.  I’ve never seen this before - and we don’t use Hyper-V in our other environments.  My guess is that they deployed the media agent in error.  Can someone running Hyper-V perhaps confirm for me please?  Thanks, Ray

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J
Vaulter
2 days ago
Base64
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Base64Byte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Nutanix AHV vTPM Backup

Hey Guys,I have a question.My customer has several Windows 11 VMs on his Nutanix. The problem is we cannot backup them. I have already read here in the forum that you should simply remove the vTPM. But this is not possible for this customer. Does anyone have this case?Surely it must be possible to back up the VMs anyway?

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Base64
Byte
4 days ago
M
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michaelfBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Does Anyone Automate Deletion of Guest VMs from vCenter After Final Backup?

Hi,We are looking at improving/automating our VM decommission process.At present, we have a dedicated VSA backup and Storage Policy that writes direct to tape media with 7 years retention on the backup copy.  This backup subclient runs on the weekend and targets a dedicated vCenter Resource Pool that is only for VMs scheduled to be decommissioned. As part of the decommission process, admins will move any VM that is to be retired into the Resource Pool and power it off ahead of the weekend backup to tape.We are now wondering if it is possible to also have this same backup job then delete the backed-up VM(s) from the vCenter/datastore so that an admin doesn’t have to manually do this the following Monday?Obviously, robustness and safety are paramount here, but just curious if anyone has achieved this and if so, how?Regards,Michael​​​​​​

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MichaelCapon
Vaulter
6 days ago
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luhennBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Commvault CSI Volume Snapshot-Based Backups for Kubernetes (RHOCP) question

Hi All, When reading documentation for Commvault CSI Volume Snapshot-Based Backups for the backup process :  Backup Process for Kubernetes (commvault.com)I can find that : …/…Backup process creates a temporary pod and mount the temporary Persistent Volume Claim to read the data.  I understand that the Persistent Volume Claim is mounted on the CV Pod (temp). But what is the data path for the backup? Is it a egress trafic from CV Pod(temp) to Access Node?  (egress : process of data sharing externally through a network’s outbound traffic from a pod). Could you please explain?If so, is is possible to use a dedicated backup network between the CV pod and the Access Node?Thanks in advance for any explanation!Best regards,Luc

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L
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9 days ago
T
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TNOByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV) Port requirement

Hi,We have a RHEV environment that resides in a DMZ network segment.VSA Proxy is deployed within this env.  Our Commserv and Media Agents can connect to the  RHEV manager and the proxy ( One-Way ).Should that be enough for taking baackups ? or should we create some network toplogy for the RHEV client and proxy ?  Thanks

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Mohamed Ramadan
12 days ago
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Stuart WalkerVaulter
asked in Virtualization and Containers
FREL equivalent for Windows

Hi Folks,Got a question about a primarily Linux Commvault install environmentIf all your Media Agents & VSA's (& COmmServe) are Linux, Do you need a Windows equivalent to a FREL (File Recovery Enabler for Linux)?I know Windows can’t natively read most Linux file systems, but my understanding is that Linux systems generally have native ability to mount/open Windows NTFS. I've also never seen any option for specifying a Windows FREL equivalent in the system

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Erase4ndReuseMedia
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21 days ago
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KameshBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
configure Hyper-V VM backups using scvmm instead of installing agent on Hyper-V node

Can we configure Hyper-V VM backups using scvmm instead of installing agent on Hyper-V node to take advantage of backups using VM tags.

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S
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15 days ago
A
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AbdulIkramByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Redhat Openstack as Hypervisor snapshot take quota check regards

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?  

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A
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20 days ago
M
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Marcel GeisenByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
VMware Cloud Director 10.6 support

Hello,in June vCloud Director 10.6 was released.As per documentation till now 10.5 is supported:https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/vmware_cloud_director_system_requirements.htmlI would be happy to know from Commvault Dev Team if they already working on it ? And is there already a timeline when it could be supported and in which version?Thank you very much in advance.BRMarcel

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
6 minutes ago
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BathiniBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
VMWare VSA Backups data flow

Backup Data flow in VMWare using the Hotadd transport mode for data transfer; Does it transfer data directly from ESxi server or VSA to library through MA?

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J
Vaulter
24 days ago
B
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backupByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Guest files restore taking Primary VSA even browsing from the Secondary Copy and Failing

Hi All,We have a VM backup with (VMware) VSA Snap. The same job was copied to secondary which was in Azure.Our VSA was later removed as there is no dependency on it.We are trying to restore few Guest Files from the VM backup from the secondary copy with Azure Media Agent and Library, but the restore is failing saying that the Old VSA was unable to communicate.Not sure why it is asking this way, even we are browsing it from Cloud MA which is having VSA installed on it.Our VM was a Windows Server, Old VSA is Windows and new MA/VSA is Linux.Any suggestions or idea, why it is taking it even we are giving other MA/VSA? Thanks in Advance.. Warm Regards,Sravan Kondeti

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S
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24 days ago
M
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Maximiliano.JBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
"Problem with restore from AWS to VMware on premise

i am trying to restore a vm in aws to on-premise, but i am not able to see the infrastructure in the vmware. discovery gives error, what is needed to be able to do a restore of this kind?

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
1 month ago
B
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backupByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Do we have any options to take Snapshot backups for Clustered Servers?

Hi All,We have many clustered servers from VMWare and we are taking the backups for it with File System iDA.As we all know that Snapshot operation is not supported for Servers from VMWare having shared disks.We have an alternate option from VMWare to take snapshot that, making the shared disks as independent disks.Do we have any alternate options to take the Virtual Server Backup for the servers from VMware with Shared disks? Thanks in Advance.Warm Regards,Sravan Kondeti

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
1 month ago
K
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KavyaByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
1 VC in 2 Different CommServe

Can we configure 1 VCenter in 2 different commServe?The Subclients that backup are different in 2 Commserve’s and proxy’sWill the Backups run smooth?Do we anticipate any ambiguity? 

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K
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1 month ago
B
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BorisByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Migration from Hyper-V Acronis backup to VMware

Hi Everybody,I have a question about migration of Hyper-V virtual maschines that are backed up via Acronis Cloud. We want to restore this machines from the Acronis backup directly to our vCenter with Commvault.Is this possible and how to realize it?For my understanding I have to install the Acronis virtual machine agent and the Commvault virtual machine agent on the same vCenter. The Acronis agent is needed to restore and migrate the backed up virtual machines directly to the vCenter and the Commvault virtual machine agent is needed for the backup of the virtual machines with Commvault.But is this possible to install both agents on the same vCenter or I’m completely on the wrong way?Best Regards

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B
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1 month ago
F
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FrozBozBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
MSGID 0x0e0000f4 failed to initalize browse request, check browse.log on commserve for more details.

Hi,When trying to restore off tapes from 4 years ago, we get the following message: MSGID 0x0e0000f4 failed to initalize browse request, check browse.log on commserve for more details. The last 2 restores we can do a browse and restore from however nothing from the time period of 4 years ago. The last 2 weekly’s (30th of August and 3rd of August) we can browse it no problem. However the 16th of August errors the same as the error from 4 years ago. It seems to be random.Lost and not sure what to do.RegardsMuhammed

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
1 month ago
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MenteeByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
VM Migration using CV

Hello Team,In our environment we have are planning to a VM migration from one Vcenter to the other one.I am thinking of commvault instead of Veeam application to perform migration.In commvault thinking of using VM replication option to migrate VM from source to destination vcenter with periodic replication. Once replication is completed I can stop and continue services using destination vcenter.Please suggest, if its good to go or do we have any other option to perform the migration.

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M
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1 month ago
K
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KameshBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Firewall Ports for Hyper-V Backup & Restore

We want to migrate VMs from Vmware to Hyper-V using Commvault. The Hyper-V will be a cluster with SAN storage to store the Cluster files. The Hyper-V cluster will be hardened with Windows Firewall rules. What are the ports to be allowed for allowing Restore of VM from VMware to Hyper-V and Backups of Hyper-V VMs on Proxy.

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K
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25 days ago
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sakuragiBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Does CommVault support Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)

Hi all,  I had a question. Could not find it with a search, so maybe someone can help me out. Does CommVault support Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)?I know Rubrik does not support it yet.  Best Regard

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Richard Kent
Byte
16 days ago
R
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RandomCustomerByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers
API endpoint to backup an entire esxi datastore

An endpoint to backup an entire esxi datastore?

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J
Vaulter
1 month ago
K
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kishore kilariBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers
Hyperv Backups failed with disks Failure Reason: Virtual machine (abc) disks are not accessible. Ensure that the access node (VSA proxy) can read the source VM disks.

Hyperv Backups failed      Failure Reason: Virtual machine (abc) disks are not accessible. Ensure that the access node (VSA proxy) can read the source VM disks.  we are added Groups as access nodes on properties of Hyperv and those 2 groups are belongs to 2 clusters in hyperv .when ever schedule backup got triggered it will pickup wrong VSA as a Backup agent and its failling with subjected error. if i add manually those VSA proxies  in subclient level properties as a access nodes then backups are completing and working fine . how to eliminate this wrong allocation of VSA while backup , i hope commvault should figureout the correct host and VSA allocation , if not correct me  and please advice how we can overcome and i would like to use group level association of VSA on node on properties tab instead of subclient level. Thanks in Advance!!

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Nikos.Kyrm
Byte
22 days ago

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