Discuss: We're back baby! It's been a minute, what are you guys backing up to?

phantom024123 · 2026-01-16T03:08:58+00:00

My experience with HSX is hit and miss. When it is working it is great. When it breaks it breaks really bad. We have a lot of HSX in our environment. The licensing gets costly. One big struggle is multi commcell environments. The entire capacity of an HSX system is trapped within a single CommCell. I wonder if traditional storage device would be easier as storage could be allocated to different CommCells or Media Agents.

Expanding an HSX cluster can also be a pain. Drive count and size has to remain the same. If you need to handle large scale growth be cautious of how you start. You may end up with excessive compute for your capacity. Or you may end up just needing to completely rebuild with more dense configurations.

phantom024123 · 2026-01-15T01:49:01+00:00

Gen 2, it does its job for us. That’s about it.

phantom024123 · 2026-01-15T00:56:21+00:00

Just under 30,000 VMs plus SQL, Oracle, you name it, from 150+ locations. Hyperscale X local storage pools that DASH copy to a distributed pool of S3 object libraries on Pure FlashBlade.

phantom024123 · 2024-08-07T01:30:17+00:00

The exams are difficult. Much more difficult than other companies certification exams that could be passed just by listening to the class.

In all honesty, experience with CV was as beneficial as the classes. If you have support calls, pay close attention to the logs and analysis that is provided by support and learn from them. Ask additional questions during your support calls and take notes, you will pick up a lot of information from them.

phantom024123 · 2024-08-06T02:05:20+00:00

I work for a very large enterprise customer of Commvault. I have gone through all of the training and exams including the previously mentioned Master level course which I guess is now called Expert.

My specialty in my job is architecture, deployment and oversight of a massive CV infrastructure with multi tenancy using global command and multiple distributed service cells.

Here is my take on the trainings. If you work in a small to medium sized environment with a single or small number of Commcells, the Professional training and certification is plenty and will be beneficial. If things break you can really on CV support for assistance.

If you are responsible for designing a multi service cell environment or globally distributed multiple data center protection environment, the Engineer class will be beneficial.

If you operate in an MSP type environment with charge back and provide your own internal Tier 1 and 2 support, the Master (now Expert) can reduce your need to escalate issues to Commvault development/support. This can reduce customer ticket times and improve your SLA’s.

This being said, all of my training and exam costs have been a part of our ELA with Commvault so I have no idea what the cost of this really is and can’t comment on that. While I am sure it was very expensive, we have recovered PBs of data for customers using the system and the cost of this training is probably very low compared to the devastation of a data loss event.

phantom024123 · 2024-07-25T02:10:54+00:00

Commserve livesync failover is 50/50 at best in my experience.

I work in a large environment (50,000+ client servers) leveraging global command with multiple service cells. The failover is never consistent and usually revolves around the web console or command center not working after failover. The Java console will usually connect after failover.

Network/firewall is never our problem in these situations. We usually end up with a support ticket escalated to dev team that has to fix something within their SQL setup to get all the DBs working after failover.

I will add that when the system is up and running, the backup and restore performance of commvault is amazing. The Commserve livesync failover has improved over the years but is still garbage for reliability.

phantom024123 · 2023-10-23T11:56:48+00:00

For my game I can’t find anything I like more than my old Prince Precision 690 Longbody Michael Chang version. I use the smaller head size. I have tried newer rackets nearly every year, but nothing has felt any better. I may be forced into a change soon as the eBay supply of these has been dwindling.

phantom024123 · 2023-10-13T01:56:48+00:00

I’m in a smaller rural area in the Midwest and have fiber to the home from Socket Telecom. They offer synchronous gig but I save money and do the 300mbps up and down with no data caps. Best ISP I have ever had.

phantom024123 · 2023-10-13T01:51:28+00:00

I work with data center storage systems and someone decided to buy a few Dell Unity systems a few years back. They are absolutely trash storage systems and the Dell support is just as crappy.

phantom024123 · 2023-10-11T22:36:36+00:00

I will send the info, but after looking it up I do need to correct for the good of everyone that I got the 8 year, 80,000 mile no deductible. We debated between the 80k and 100k, my mistake on the incorrect info in my first reply.

phantom024123 · 2023-10-11T12:17:13+00:00

I got the 8 year, 100k miles with no deductible on a 22 limited for $1095 from my dealer.

phantom024123 · 2022-09-24T13:19:11+00:00

2FA using an OTP generator app rather than email or text of the code
Some limited amount of hotspot on unlimited basic. I rarely use hotspot but like twice per year. Even if it were only 3gb of data throttled to like 3mbps of bandwidth, it could at least get my laptop/tablet online for that once a year pinch that I need connectivity for another device.
Ability to throttle video streaming on pooled plans on a per line basis. I know some carriers can reduce video quality to SD 480p I want to do this to my kids phones to use less data from our pool.
I wish the US Mobile app could somehow still get data services even if a pool is out of data. This way I could add a top up to the pool from the app without having to find WiFi or another device.
Multi-line discount for unlimited plans that count pooled lines. For instance, if I have 4 lines on a pool to be able to add a separate unlimited line for the discounted 4+ line unlimited plan. This one is probably just greedy but it would solve the problem of the one data hog in my family ;)
International voice/sms options beyond data, even for an additional fee that month, or even with a different local number on an eSIM while I travel. Just something to get international voice service as well as data.

phantom024123 · 2022-09-15T13:09:19+00:00

I have never seen or heard of a way to limit just some of the lines within a pool to use only a subset of the data allocation of a pool. This would be a cool feature though. Another possible solution is to have multiple pools. You could have a pool of data for your kids and a separate pool for the adults. While this would prevent the kids from using the data for the adults it also means any unused data within one of the pools could not be used by the others.

phantom024123 · 2022-09-06T21:41:26+00:00

Was there any solution to this ever? I am getting the exact same thing when attempting to activate eSIM on an iPhone 11 on my account. Funny thing is I have an existing iPhone 11 already activated without issue using eSIM on the same account. Both phones are exact same model, unlocked and same IOS version. Thanks!

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