4. • Storage
• Disk
• Tape
• Cloud
• Snapshot Operations
• Deduplication
Database(s)
• Data Mover
MEDIA AGENT(S) Functions
Can be installed on most operating
systems and platforms
• Maintains Index Cache
Index Cache
DDB
5. Deduplication Overview
Deduplication provides an efficient method to transmit and store data by identifying and eliminating duplicate blocks of data during
backups.
Deduplication offers the following benefits:
• Optimizes use of storage media by eliminating duplicate blocks of data.
• Reduces network traffic by sending only unique data during backup operations.
C#
V_100, Chunk 18,
Location 99
D#
V_107, Chunk 8, Location
6
V_109, Chunk 5, Location
2
F#
Deduplication Database
Deduplication Database typically located on the
Media Agent.
6. COMMVAULT HYPERSCALE™ APPLIANCE
Complete turnkey solution from CV
Sold and supported by CV
Ideal for mid-market deployments
Simplicity
Simple to setup, manage and upgrade
Modular Scale
Grow with the needs of the business
Non-disruptive capacity and performance expansion
Resiliency
No single point of failure
Built in HA and DR capabilities
Streamlined Support
Single call support from Commvault
Centralized patch management
Active monitoring
Better TCO
Lower procurement cost
Low operational overhead
7. Commvault® Agents
Methods for Protecting Data:
Standard Backup Agents
Archiving Agents
Additional Agents and
Protection Methods
File system backup
Application backup agents
Virtual Server Agent
OnePass® Agent
Compliance archiver agent
Laptop and end user backup
IntelliSnap® Technology
Continuous Data Replicator
9. IMPORTANCE OF APPLICATION AND OS AWARENESS
File Systems
Applications
For up-to-date and a complete listing of supported operating systems and applications, please visit the Commvault documentation website at documentation.commvault.com
10. Commvault – Next Generation FS Agent
The Windows File System Agent provides unified protection and recovery for file system data residing on clients. .
File System Agent backs up the entire file system, which includes:
• System State
• UNC paths
• Mount points
11. Commvault FS Agent – Key Features
Simplified Data Management
Point-in-Time Recovery
System State & 1Touch
Uninterrupted Backup and Restore
Block-Level Backups
Virtualize Me
OnePass
13. VIRTUALIZE ME – Use Case
Leverage any standard physical computer backup to convert to a virtual
machine. Useful to create a virtual clone of a physical or virtual machine.
Physical or
Virtual Machines
Windows or Linux Clients
Clone
P2V
Virtualize Me
VMware OR Hyper-V
16. 16
Exchange Server Backup Agents – Key Features
• Database Protection for Disaster Recovery
• Recovering Messages from an Exchange Database
• Protection of Messages and Mailbox Items
• Granular Public Folder Protection for Shared Information
• IntelliSnap
•Exchange databases
•Public folder stores that contain data of the public folders
•Transaction logs
•From an offline Exchange database.
•From an Exchange database without restoring the entire database.
By backing up mailboxes regularly, you can restore entire mailboxes without restoring the
Exchange database.
you can retrieve shared data between Exchange users, such as group documents,
messages, attachments, and calendars
you can create a point-in-time snapshot by quiescing the data temporarily, taking a
snapshot, and then resuming live operations
18. MSSQL Server Backup Agents – Key Features
Fully Integrated Backup And Recovery Solution
• Automatic Discovery & Transaction Log Protection
• Snapshot Backup
• Full Clustering Options Support Including Always-On
• Restore to a Hot Standby SQL Server
• SQL Database Migration to the Cloud
19. ORACLE DATABASE PROCTECTION
Business Critical Applications
Multiple Management Tools
Exponential Data Growth
Varied Implementation Methods
Cloud Migrations
Increased Regulations
Dedicated Backup DBA’s required
Self Service Operations
Challenges of DB Management
Oracle
20. Commvault Oracle Agent – Key Features
Application
Aware
Hardware
Snapshots
Live Sync
Replication
Table Level
Recovery
Oracle Cloud
Migration
Backup &
Recovery
Instant
Application
Recovery
Integrated
Deduplication,
Compression
& Encryption
Create Storage Array Snapshots as Recovery Points,
for off host Proxy Backup and rapid cloning
Replicate your Database to a Standby
System even with Oracle Standard Edition
Recover Schemas back to Production or
into Dev/Test for Oracle 10.x, 11.x, 12.x
Run DR Tests and Production Workloads in the Cloud
Run RMAN Backup and Recovery
Operations without managing Scripts
Start your Database from the
Backup Media without the
need to restore
Run Backups as often as you like while
saving Time, Storage Space and be Secure
21. Commvault® Software
SharePoint Farm
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT FARM
Search
App Services
Web
Apps
SharePoint Agent(s)
Database
File System Agent
Clustered FS Agents, SQL Agent
Protection of a Typical SharePoint Farm
22. MS Sharepoint Backup Agents – Key Features
The SharePoint Server Agent provides complete protection of on-premises SharePoint farm and documents in your
enterprise, and SharePoint online in Office 365
Protect All SharePoint Components
Fast Backup and Recovery for Content Database
Application-Aware Backups
24. VIRTUALIZATION & CLOUD CLIMATE
Cloud Adoption & IT as a Utility
Migration to
MSP / Cloud
Solution
Provider as MSP
IT as a Service
Provider
Optimization
Security
Software Independence
Reporting
Automation
HW/Cloud Agnostic
Self-Serviceability
Expansion of
Public, Private
and Hybrid
Clouds
Multi-Hypervisor /
Hyper Converged
25. How Commvault® software solves customer data
management challenges in private and public cloud
environments
27. VSA WITH INTELLISNAP® FUNCTIONALITY
Leveraging Intellisnap functionality
with the Virtual Server Agent allow
for rapid protection and recovery of
large VM environments
Support for:
VMware
Hyper-V
Nutanix AHV
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Snaps
28. VSA AUTOMATED DISCOVERY AND FILTERING
Automatic Discovery enables the automatic discovery and
protection of virtual machines based on certain criteria
Naming Convention
Specific Operating System Specific DNS Hostname
Specific Host
Specific Datastore
Specific Resource Pool
Specific Datacenter
Specific Cluster
Specific Folder
Specific VAPP
And many other affinities…
Power State
Notes
Custom Attributes & Values*
Annotations*
*applies to VMware only
29. VM OWNER DETECTION (VMWARE)
Identifies and Assigns VM Client Owners Automatically
Checks appropriate capabilities of users and user groups in vCenter and
CommCell®
Key Benefits
Active Directory Integrated: Detect
and assign VM ownership automatically
Lifecycle: Allow end-users and
application owners to manage their own
VMs as dynamically provisioned
Bob
Sales Engineering Support
30. RESILIENCY & LOAD BALANCING
Proxy Teaming for Highly Scalable Fault
Tolerant Backups
Multi-job aware
Dynamically dispatched
Distribution based on resource capacity
In case of VSA proxy failure, workload
automatically redistributed to remaining proxy
servers
Processing
Processing
Processing
CPU MEM
Waiting VMs
Pseudo Client
Proxy1
Proxy2
32. VSA LIVE RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY
Live Recovery
Functionality
Accelerated Recovery & DR
RTO / SLA Flexibility
Enhanced Recovery for and
Access to VM Production
Services
Integrated Commvault®
Software Functionality
Deep and Mature Application
Integration
Automatic Discovery
Integrated Monitoring and Reporting
Robust Deduplication
Traditional VSA
Full VM Recovery
Granular File Recovery
VM Archive
Self Service Access
(space & time considerations)
33. LIVE RECOVERY METHODOLOGIES
Live Browse &
Live File Recovery
Granular File Restore from
Snaps, Backups or VM
archives without need for
metadata collection
…reduce backup times without sacrificing
the capability to recover files on a
granular basis – ideal for scenarios such
as large VM file servers
Feature Description Use Cases (allows users to…)
Live Mount
Power Up VMs directly from
Snaps/Backup copies of the
VM image
…access application level data with
mining Tools. Instantly validate VM
copies for DR / patch / dev /test with a
non-persistent VM
Live Sync
After backup of a VM,
changes are transmitted to
replicated VM and applied,
providing an instantly
available copy
…create and instantly access standby
VMs with the highest RPO / RTO
requirements - Business Continuance
/ DR Scenarios
Live Recovery
For Virtual Machines
Near Instant Access to VM
while Storage vMotion copies
the VM into production in the
background
…access and utilize VMs more quickly
during a recovery operation, while
reconciling changes to the recovered VM
34. RESTORING VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH LIVE RECOVERY
Selected VM can be powered on during
recovery phase: Running VM can be access
during this time. Any changes made will be
reconciled to production VM once recovery is
complete
3
Production ESXi Cluster
1
4
Backup Copy exposed on MediaAgent as
NFS Export and mounted to destination
ESXi server.
1
VM configuration and catalog files
retrieved and modified to indicate that
writes can be made to the NFS datastore.
2
Mounted NFS DataStore is removed once
recovery operation is completed.
4
2
3
35. LIVE MOUNT PROCESS
Selected VM powered on: On-demand
power on operation, changes to the VM are not
altering the Backup Copy data.
3
Production ESXi Cluster
4
Create Live Mount Provisioning Policy:
Defines the Live Mount operating parameters
and limits within the production environment.
1
Backup Copy is presented as NFS
DataStore to ESXi production
environment: This is a R/W non-persistent
copy in native format. No changes are made to
the backup copy.
2
2
3
Mounted NFS DataStore is removed once
recovery operation is completed.
4
36. LIVE SYNC IN ACTION
VSA Protection Operation is run against
VMs to be replicated : This will be a low
impact incremental backup.
1
After Protection Operation is Complete
Changed Blocks are Shipped to Standby
VMs: This can be a synchronous or asynchronous
operation.
2
1
2
OR DASH Copy is Performed to Secondary Site:
3
Then Changed Blocks are Overlaid on Replicated
VMs:
4
Primary
Datacenter
Secondary
Datacenter
3 DASH Copy
4
Disaster Recovery Benefits:
Minimal load on Production servers
Hardware Agnostic
Automated Validation
Planned and Unplanned Failover
Bandwidth efficient through deduplication and compression
37. APPLICATION-AWARE BACKUPS FOR VSA
Consistency
Recoverability
Easy Recovery
Crash Consistent
Speed
Consistency
Recoverability
Application Consistent
Consistency
Recoverability
Application Aware
38. END USER WEB CONSOLE
Virtual Machine Recovery
VM File(s) Recovery
Agentless Restores
Live Mount
40. SNAPSHOT CHALLENGES
Too Many Tools, Too Much Complexity
Multiple Tools for each Array
Compounded in Heterogeneous
Environments
Script-Intensive
I/O Impact on Production
Lack of Application Awareness /
Granular Restore
Challenging to Integrate into a
Cohesive Data Management Strategy
41. INTELLISNAP® FUNCTIONALITY
…a Commvault® software functionality that controls
and manages snapshot functionality across a wide
variety of hardware storage platforms, allowing
users to integrate and utilize snapshots as an
effective tool in a cohesive data management
approach
Centralized Configuration & Reporting
“Zero-Script” GUI-Based Configuration
Single Policy for Full Data Lifecycle
CommVault Application and Data Protection Expertise
Combined with the Power of Hardware Snapshots
IntelliSnap is…
Integrated Cross Platform Snapshot Management
42. INTELLISNAP® TECHNOLOGY: SCOPE OF COVERAGE
Applications
Seamless application consistent integration
including advanced recovery and backup options
HW Platforms
Seamless integration for discovery, snapshot, and
revert/recovery eliminating scripting
and others…
FAS
E Series
52. COMMON USE CASES FOR THE CLOUD
High data durability – setup within a few clicks
Sending on premise
production data to cloud
storage
Backup/archive
To the cloud
Protecting workloads in the
cloud and moving to an
alternate location
Backup
In the cloud
Recovering production
workloads in the cloud
DR / Migration
in the cloud
53. THE VALUE OF A COMMVAULT® SOLUTION
REDUCE COSTS with a single tool
REDUCED RISK avoid hypervisor lock-in by enabling cross platform restore
EXTEND DR to more workloads with cloud resources
INCREASED EFFICIENCY with built-in replication and automation
54. USE CASE #1: MOVE ANY DATA TO THE CLOUD
OS, Endpoint,
Apps & DBs
Large Files and Big Data SaaS and Cloud-Native
Copy
Management
Virtual Machines
Broad Enterprise Workload coverage
Copy Pool1
Data Copies
Data Policy
Native REST integration
w/de-dup and encryption
Content Store
Benefits
• Provide native cloud storage integration
for any workload through a single policy
• Avoid point solutions that increase
infrastructure and management costs
Benefits
• Efficient network
transfer via
deduplication
without gateways
or appliances
• Tier within local
Benefits
• Encrypt data for transfer and rest to
ensure security
• Data portability and tape replacement
55. VSA FOR PUBLIC CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Cross Hypervisor restore Option
Restore VMware or Hyper-V VMs as a
new VM in Amazon EC2 or Microsoft
Azure
Use cases: Migration, DR, Test/Dev
VM Provisioning and Lifecycle Management
Replication using LiveSync from VMware
Auto-detection, content and filtering rules
VM protection and recovery
56. USE CASE #2: DR & MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD
IaaS Hybrid To
DR
DR business
processes
(workflow)
Cloud server
MA workloads
DR Copy
Replicated
backup copy 2
2
Protect, replicate, recover & convert seamlessly
Local Copy
Local cache
backup copy 1
Featuring DASH copy
backups into cloud
1
Virtual
Machines
VM Restore & convert into AWS/Azure
Instances or Databases/Files
3
Applications online, DR
complete!
4
57. LIVE SYNC
Secondary Datacenter
VSA Protection Operation is run
against VMs to be replicated : This
will be a low impact incremental backup.
1
After Protection Operation is
Complete Changed Blocks are Shipped
to Standby VMs: This can be a
synchronous or asynchronous operation.
2
1
2
OR DASH Copy is Performed to
Secondary Site
3
Then Changed Blocks are
Overlaid on Replicated VMs
4
Primary Datacenter
3 DASH Copy
4
VMware to AWS, ARM & Azure Classic
58. USE CASE #3: PROTECT & MANAGE DATA IN THE CLOUD
Prod
Dev/Test
Storage Policy
Protect
Recover
Move
Find
Use
Secure
Snaps
Native
orchestration
DR
Platform &
Region
Independence
63. COMMVAULT EDGE® DRIVE
Cloud-based Storage Solution
Access Anywhere
Store, Retrieve and Share Files Online
WebDAV and FTP support
Improved Data Protection Work Smarter – Any Device Collaboration
Web console
Windows Explorer
Plug-in
Mobile
Edge Drive
Access Anywhere
Local Access (Drag & Drop)
Share
Shared File/Folder Options:
Can View (View and Download)
Can Edit (View, Download and Upload)
Public Link (Password and Expiry date option)
Re-share a share (configurable)
Email Notification
Add Custom Tags & Comments
64. SHARE DATA
Fully Integrated
Share Files and Folders
Re-Share Options
Set Permissions
Public Share Options
Collaborative Shares
65. COMMVAULT® ENDPOINT PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY
Quick & Automated Backups
Improved Resource Utilization
Network Optimized Backups
Anytime, Anywhere Access
Integrated Security
Customization Based on
Business Rules
Endpoint Data Protection Includes
Endpoint Data
Protect
Access Share
Disk
Tape
Web console
Windows Explorer plug-in
Mobile Compliance
search and hold
Internal/
External teams
67. Automate Administrate Collect Monitor Analyze Report Activate
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Commvault® natively provides a large and flexible feature set that helps organizations manage a wide-range of
operational tasks.
68. USER MANAGEMENT & SECURITY
A CommCell® user account is required by all users
who perform functions within a CommCell
Role-Based Security
User/user
group
Role
(e.g. Master)
Entity
Owner Security
Owner
69. COMMCELL® ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS
CommCell
CommCell Console
Primary
Management
Interface
Perform All
Configuration and
Operations Tasks
Installed by
default with
CommServe
Admin Console
Web Based UI
Streamlined
Management for
Routine Tasks
Quick Setup using
Default Configuration
Values
70. MULTI-TENANT COMMCELL® ENVIRONMENT
Service Provider configuration
Tenants share the same CommCell
environment
Tenants can only see their own
systems
Logically separate companies
Assigned separate and agreed SLAs
Tenant admins for a company have
additional control
Native security, segregation and
control
Customer
Service Provider
DMZ Service
Provider
Internal
Optional
Remote
Public
Cloud
71. VM LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Self-Service VM Provisioning
Admin creates pre-defined
templates
Control resources
automatically
User friendly interface
Virtual Labs capability
Dev-Test Groups
VMware Dev Template
Name: VM*Dev
CPUs: 2
Memory: 8GB
NICs: 2
Disk: 100GB
Snapshots: 3
Virtual Lab
72. COMMVAULT® DATA ANALYTICS
Locate older files or emails
Identify extra copies of large files or databases
Remove unauthorized file types
Delete outdated emails to reduce compliance risk
Tackling “Big Data”
73. COMMVAULT® SEARCH ENGINE
Ability to index data and allow search and eDiscovery across repositories
Provides a highly distributed indexing and searching configuration that enables
you to index simultaneously on multiple servers and search across these search
servers
Enables end users to find the single document most relevant to their specific goal
Ability to identify and discover the right information applicable to your eDiscovery
requests
Lighter deployment package end easier installation
78. VALUE OF DISCOVERY
Why does it matter?
Provides Information for Valid Design
Lays the Groundwork for Effective Positioning
Builds Credibility and Rapport
Facilitates Expanded Conversations & Audiences
Paves the Way for High Impact Technical Engagements
Find the Hooks Plant the Seeds Lay the Landmines
79. Differentiated Value
VALUE OF EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
Alternate
Solution
Commvault®
Software
Value
Virtualized Environment Protection
Alternate
Solution
Commvault®
Software
Value
Virtualized Environment Protection
Data Center Protection
Metrics Reporting
Search
Endpoint Data Protection
Differentiated Value Differentiated Value
80. SYSTEM DISCOVERY AND ARCHIVE ANALYZER
Toolkit provided by Commvault® Cloud Services
Helps determine contents and structure of environment
Server types
– Operating systems
– Software applications
– Capacity metrics
– Memory usage
Archive Analyzer
– File sizes
– Files by extension
– File ages
Virtual Machines
– VM Metrics (e.g. Name of VMs, Size, Guest OS)
MS Exchange
– Message Size, Count, Modification time
– Attachment details
– Recipient details
82. KEY CUSTOMER CUES
Tactical Technical Plays
“We can barely meet our daily
12-hour backup window.”
“We’re having trouble meeting
our service level agreements.”
Application Roll-out
Virtualization and Cloud
Investigating Appliances
Infrastructure and/or Maintenance Costs
“Our maintenance costs are going
through the roof.”
“It’s difficult to keep pace with our
storage costs.”
“We’re planning to deploy 10 new
application servers to support our
financial systems.”
“We’re migrating from Lotus
Domino to Exchange.”
“We’re evaluating open source
cloud computing.”
“We would like to utilize cloud
storage for our long term data
retention.”
Data Loss
“We were unable to restore from a
catastrophic server failure.”
“Our Disaster Recovery has been
unable to successfully pass audits.”
“We are looking at
deduplication
solutions.”
Litigation and/or Regulatory Pressures
“We were recently involved in
litigation and the cost of
eDiscovery was astronomical.”
“Our industry is under increased
regulatory scrutiny.”
Performance / Scalability Challenges
87. VALUE OF DISCOVERY BEYOND DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
Data collection for configuration and design using the CQC
Areas of exploration
Expanding the conversation
Data discovery using Commvault® tools
