Commvault Certified Professional case studies
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The Commvault Certified Professional (CCP) is a vendor credential for data protection and information management professionals who design, operate, and troubleshoot Commvault environments rather than merely administer a single backup job. It typically suits backup administrators moving into architecture roles, storage and infrastructure engineers responsible for a CommCell, and managed-service staff who run Commvault on behalf of clients. The Commvault Certified Professional case studies are 5 cases and about 3,382 words.
1Deduplication Metadata Path Failure After Network Segmentation
A CommCell has one CommServe at headquarters and six MediaAgents. The main storage policy writes to deduplicated disk libraries on MA1, MA2, and MA3, but all three use a shared Deduplication Database (DDB) hosted on MA-DEDU1.
709 words, about 4 min2Auxiliary Copy Backlog Fills a Deduplicated Disk Library
A storage policy writes weekly fulls and daily incrementals to a 60 TB deduplicated disk library and then auxiliary-copies to a 4-drive LTO tape library. Primary retention is 14 days; secondary retention is one year.
688 words, about 3 min3SQL Always On Subclient Pinned to a Paused Replica
A SQL Server Always On Availability Group has three replicas: SQLA (primary), SQLB (synchronous secondary), and SQLC (asynchronous secondary in the DR site). Commvault SQL iDA protects 40 databases.
676 words, about 3 min4VMware Quiesced Snapshot Failures and a Lagging Cloud Copy
A VMware environment has 600 VMs on vSphere 8 and uses Commvault VSA proxies with IntelliSnap. After an ESXi upgrade, 40 VMs fail with 'Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit.' Ten of those VMs use independent disks and bus sharing for a legacy cluster; five run older VMware Tools; the rest are large file servers.
662 words, about 3 min5Local Admin Account Used After Contractor Offboarding
A CommCell supports 8,000 users through SAML SSO and has 14 local accounts with the CommCell Administrator role. A contractor's account was disabled in the IdP but remained active locally.
647 words, about 3 min