Pure Storage : Array Capacity information

The Analysis tab of PURE storage GUI display Array capacity utilization.

Here is a breakdown of the color code:

1) All Volume: (white):  Is the total usable capacity of the array.
2) All volumes - system: (Grey) :  space occupied by internal array metadata
3) All volumes - Shared space: (blue) : Physical space occupied by deduplicated data (volume and snapshots)
4) All volumes - snapshot : Purple: Physical space occupied of unique data
5) All volumes - volume: Light Blue: Physical space used by volume and not shared with other volumes.

Pure Storage : Default user name and password

Just in case.

The default username and password for Pure storage is pureuser and pureuser

What is your story, please share via comments. 

NetApp : Some of the aggregates are in the offline or restricted state and the volume in these aggregates are not displayed

If you see the following message on the system manager then it is best to raise a support case with NetApp support.
Some of the aggregates are in the offline or restricted state and the volume in these aggregates are not displayed

Provide them the link to the following KB article.

The debug vreport show provides more details into what is happening.

Commvault : Backup capacity utilization based on backup clients

When the Commvault disk library fills up in Commvault, one very useful information to have is the distribution of capacity based on the clients. This information allows the identification of clients that consume the most capacity on the library. 

There are no reports available in the Commcell console that provides this information. However, the following webconsole report (Client Storage Utilization by Storage Policy Copy report) is helpful.

https://cloud.commvault.com/webconsole/softwarestore/#!/135/664/6195
 

Migrate OnCommand performance manager data to unified manager ( Job remain in progress)

Recently, an OCPM (OnCommand performance manager) managed NetApp Cluster data was migrated to OCUM (OnCommand Unified Manager) v7.2P1.

The steps to migrate the cluster data was straight forward and the steps are mentioned here.

The trouble was that after the migration was initiated the job remained IN-PROGRESS for almost 2 weeks and there was no way to ascertain if the job was in progress.

A support case was raised with NetApp and a support bundle was generated. Upon analysis it was found that there was an events table that was too large. Here is a snippet from the logs:

c.n.d.u.m.i.m.o.OpmBaseMigrator (http://OpmBaseMigrator.java:76) - Migrating data from table - continuous_event_participant succeeded in 20,066 sec

2018-11-06 04:59:29,890 INFO  [main] c.n.d.u.m.i.m.o.OpmBaseMigrator (http://OpmBaseMigrator.java:68) - Migrating data from table - continuous_event_participant_stats

2018-11-06 11:47:12,191 INFO  [main] c.n.d.u.m.u.MigrationUtil (http://MigrationUtil.java:96) - Looking for process id - 8,149. Process list command output - Optional[[ 8149 java]]

2018-11-06 11:47:12,265 INFO  [main] c.n.d.u.m.i.MigrationStatusService (http://MigrationStatusService.java:310) - Validate Active Migrations - Found a datasource with id 2 and its java process id 8,149

2018-11-06 11:47:12,269 INFO  [main] c.n.d.u.m.i.MigrationStatusService (http://MigrationStatusService.java:253) - Unable to find data source to migrate or there is no datasource in scheduled status.

If you are running into a similar issue then it is best to raise a support case and share a support bundle with them .

If you are experiencing something similar then feel free to leave a message/note. 

Filter Hyper-V VMs using notes || Commvault content filters

Recently, there was a request to filter a bunch of VMs from backups within Commvault. 

The following process was followed: 

1) Under the subclient properties, a filter was created for the rules that looks for notes as 'nobackup'.  See screenshot below. 

2) The VM engineer was informed to add notes to the hyper-V VM. 

There are two ways to do it: 

2.a)   Hyper-v Manager sees nobackup in Notes when highlighting the VM Settings>Management>Name to edit the Notes section

  

2.b)Virtual Machine Manager sees nobackup in Properties>General>Description and can be edited directly

Commvault V11 SP13 upgrade / update and backup failures

Recently, the Commserve and media agent of a Commvault environment was updated to SP13. Post the update, backups failed to run with client reporting errors related to 'client services not running'.

It was a big mess with all clients being impacted.

The fix to the issue was to download and install the hotfixes for SP13 from cloud.commvault.com and then restart the services.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Leave a comment to let me know that you share my pain. :-)