# File Indexing for Virtualization Workloads

For faster browsing of guest files during restores and for searching guest files, you can enable file indexing for your VMs/instances, VM groups, and/or backup plans.

File indexing crawls backups to create a file (called an index) that contains all the metadata (such as file name and date). Commvault uses the index to support browsing and searching of guest files. File indexing works directly with backup data, without connecting to the hypervisor or examining VM group configuration.

Note

File indexing is not supported for VMs with Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) based encryption or volumes encrypted using encryption software (for example, BitLocker).

## Key Features

- Automatically index metadata for files and folders

- Search virtual machine files and folders by file name or file extension

- Filter search of VM files and folders by file type

- Download and restore from search results

## Supported Hypervisors and Backup Types

- Alibaba Cloud streaming backup

- Amazon EC2 streaming and IntelliSnap backup copy

- Azure VM streaming and IntelliSnap backup copy

- Azure Local streaming backup and IntelliSnap backup copy

- Google Cloud streaming backup

- Hyper-V, as follows: Streaming and IntelliSnap backup copy

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure streaming backup

- vCloud Director streaming backup

- VMware streaming and IntelliSnap backup copy

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