Google Cloud VMware Engine

You can deploy Commvault to protect workloads running in Google Cloud VMware Engine. The vCenter and hosts reside on high-performance servers in the Google Cloud datacenter.

• The CommServe system (CS) is the machine running Commvault software.

• The Virtual Server Agent (VSA) manages backups and restores for virtual machines.

• The MediaAgent (MA) handles data movement.

VMware Engine operates in the same way as an on-premises deployment of VMware, except that Google Cloud does not provide access to hosts.

• vSAN is used as a shared datastore.

For best results, deploy your libraries in a Google Cloud bucket.

For more information, see Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google VMware Engine IAM roles and permissions.

Commvault Deployment and Configuration

For best results, deploy Commvault components on guest VMs on VMware Engine. The CommServe software, VSA proxies, and MediaAgents can be installed on a single standalone VM, or on separate VMs.

• Create a virtualization client, entering the IP address for the vCenter host.

  Use cloudowner@gve.local as the vCenter username.

• Deploy Virtual Server Agent (VSA) proxies as virtual machines running in VMware Engine.

• Add virtual machines to a subclient that is used as a target for backups.

• Configure backups to use libraries for storage.

• For IntelliSnap backups, configure the VSA subclient to use Virtual Server Agent Snap as the snap engine. For more information, see IntelliSnap Protection for VMs on VVol or VSAN Datastores.

Features

Commvault Version 11, Feature Release 22 and later, supports the following features with VMware Engine:

• Backups and restores using vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

• Changed block tracking (CBT)

• Full, incremental, and synthetic full backups

• Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attaching to a VM), and guest files and folders

• Agentless file recovery

• Application-aware backups

• VM conversion from VMware to GCP

• Replication from streaming or IntelliSnap backups

Limitations

• Because there is no access to hosts, the following Commvault features are not supported for VMware Engine:

  • Live VM recovery using vMotion

  • Live mount

• Only the HotAdd and NBD transport modes are supported. The SAN transport mode does not work with VMware Engine.

• When you restore a VM to a different ESXi host or cluster, you must specify the resource pool and VM folder path for the restored VM.

Related Topics

For more information, see Google Cloud VMware Engine documentation.