To use Amazon snapshot capabilities, you can enable IntelliSnap backups on an Amazon EC2 VM group.
Important
In certain cases, the Commvault software might not delete snapshots that are intended to be temporary, and these snapshots can increase your monthly costs for AWS. For information about identifying and deleting these snapshots, see Cleaning up resources after Amazon EC2 instance or backup deletion.
Before You Begin
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Configure storage as described in Configuring a Cloud Storage. Specify an AWS instance as the MediaAgent.
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Add the hypervisor as described in Adding an Amazon Web Services Hypervisor.
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Create a server plan as described in Create a server plan.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.
The Virtual machines page appears.
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On the VM groups tab, click the VM group.
The VM group page appears.
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On the Configuration tab, in the Settings area, move the IntelliSnap toggle key to the right.
Result
When you enable IntelliSnap on a VM group, Commvault automatically creates the following configurations:
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Schedule policies are created for the primary (snap) and backup copies.
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The server backup plan associated with the VM group has IntelliSnap enabled and is set to retain eight snap recovery points. (You can modify the server plan to specify a different number of snaps to retain.)