A MediaAgent provides high performance data movement and manages the data storage. For scalability, you can create more than one MediaAgent in a CommCell environment.
If your environment includes at least one hypervisor that VM provisioning settings are specified for, you can create an access node for a hypervisor. This capability simplifies expanding into a new region for MSPs.
Perform this procedure after the Specifying VM Provisioning Settings for Azure Access Nodes or Specifying VM Provisioning Settings for Amazon Web Services Access Nodes procedure.
When you perform the procedure in this topic, you do not need to perform the Installing a MediaAgent procedure.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Manage > Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure page appears.
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Click the MediaAgent tile.
The MediaAgent page appears.
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Click Add MediaAgent.
The Add MediaAgent dialog box appears.
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In the Provisioning Hypervisor field, select the hypervisor that will host the MediaAgent by using the choices in the dropdown list.
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Click the Create MediaAgent tab.
The dialog box switches to the Create MediaAgent options.
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In the Provisioning Hypervisor field, select the hypervisor that will host the MediaAgent by using the choices in the dropdown list.
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In the Region field, select the region that will host the MediaAgent from the list of regions configured in VM Provisioning Settings by using the choices in the dropdown list.
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Click Windows or Linux as the Operating System.
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Name the virtual machine by typing a name into the VM Name field.
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Launch the job to create the MediaAgent by clicking Submit at the lower right of the screen.
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The newly created MediaAgent will be listed in MediaAgent page under the name you gave it with the other MediaAgents.