Prepare source VMs/instances for recovery to an Azure cleanroom site

In certain cases, source VMs/instances must be prepared for recovery to Azure VMs in an Azure cleanroom site.

VMs/instances that host Active Directory

For VMs/instances that host Active Directory, if you want the Commvault to automatically perform health checks of your recovered AD environment, install the Commvault Active Directory package.

From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Servers.
In the row for the VM/instance, click the action button , select Maintenance, and then select Add software.
From the Select packages list, select Active Directory, and then click OK.
Click Install.

For recovering individual files

If you want the ability to recover individual files, install the Commvault File System package on the VMs/instances.

From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Servers.
In the row for the VM/instance, click the action button , select Maintenance, and then select Add software.
From the Select packages list, select File System, and then click OK.
Click Install.

For Nutanix AHV instances with a firewall

For Nutanix AHV instances that have a firewall, disable the firewall before running the backup that you will use for the recovery.

Hyper-V differencing disks

For Hyper-V VMs, if you have differencing disks (AVHD or AVHDX files), merge the disks with the original disk.

For instructions, see How to merge checkpoints that have multiple differencing disks in the Microsoft documentation.

Epic EHR databases

If a file system that hosts an Epic EHR (InterSystems IRIS Caché) database is directly on a disk, identify the correct disk and update the fstab file with an appropriate restored disk for the file system.
For information about recovering an Epic EHR database to a Linux VM in an Azure cleanroom site, see Prepare a Red Hat-based virtual machine for Azure.