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.
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Azure VM: "Specify VM Provisioning Settings" in Configuring Auto-Scaling for Azure VM Access Nodes
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Azure VM: "Specify VM Provisioning Settings" in Configuring Auto-Scaling for Azure VM Access Nodes
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Amazon EC2: Specifying VM Provisioning Settings for Amazon EC2 Access Nodes
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.