Newsletter for New Features in Innovation Release 11.46

Review the newsletter for new features in Innovation Release 11.46.

Commvault Cloud Platform

Cloud Rewind: Cross-Zone Recovery for GCP Assembly

Elastic Infrastructure for data management operations

Elastic compute infrastructure now automatically scales resources based on workload demand for AuxCopy, synthetic full backup, data verification, and DDB reconstruction operations, eliminating the need to provision and manage static media agent instances. In this release, elastic infrastructure is supported for cloud storage targets only, with pod-based credential management handling dynamic access to protected data.

Product Navigation: Sidebar Updates

The updated Commvault navigation experience groups related features into logical categories, making administrative and data protection workflows easier to navigate. The update also introduces page favorites and improved search to help users find features more quickly.

Simplified Email Delivery with Azure Communication Services - Software

Commvault Cloud (Software) introduces Azure Communication Services as an alternative to customer-managed SMTP for sending alerts, reports, and notifications. This reduces setup complexity and common configuration challenges while providing a more reliable option for email delivery.

Commvault Security Solutions

Cleanroom on-premises enhancements and expanded hypervisor support

Customers can now use Commvault Flex to create secure, isolated, and air-gapped storage for on-premises cleanroom recovery. This enables organizations to quickly stand up a secure recovery environment with minimal management effort while leveraging existing flash storage investments for faster recovery outcomes.

Cleanroom on-premises support has also been expanded across all Commvault-supported hypervisors, allowing customers to recover the Commvault control plane and applications into their preferred virtualization platform for cyber recovery testing or actual recovery scenarios.

In addition, Cleanroom runbooks now support VMware as a recovery target, enabling VMware customers to benefit from automated recovery orchestration, including ordered recovery workflows, script execution, and repeatable runbooks.

Commvault Cleanroom in Azure and AWS now supports Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS)

Commvault Cleanroom in cloud now supports application recovery from Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3, giving customers greater flexibility in how they store and manage their backup data. Organizations can choose to recover from their own cloud storage (BYOS) or from Commvault AirGap, enabling them to align recovery operations with their security, compliance, and cost requirements while maintaining fast and reliable recovery outcomes.

Threat Scan Enhanced Encryption Detection Engine

This enhancement upgrades the encryption detection engine to recognize multiple ransomware encryption ciphers, separate compressed files from encrypted ones, and provide clear confidence scores within the Command Center UI. It provides customers with better context as to which files may have been impacted by ransomware to build greater trust in security alerts for faster, more confident response. 

Partner Ecosystem

Add support for S3 Object Lock - Governance mode

This feature adds support for S3 Object Lock in Governance mode, enabling customers to protect backup data from deletion while allowing authorized users to reclaim storage when needed. It helps organizations manage tenant data flexibly, confirming secure retention and efficient storage use without sacrificing control.

Cloud/Object Storage: WORM Storage Optimization for Object Storage

This feature optimizes WORM-protected object storage by continuously reclaiming expired data, eliminating disruptive maintenance events. It enables customers to reduce storage costs, smooth performance, and support flexible workloads, all while maintaining data immutability and ransomware protection. It helps customers increase efficiency and operational stability in their storage environments.

MSP Multi-Person Authorization (MPA) Enhancements

This release expands Multi-Person Authorization (MPA) with a series of enhancements that strengthen governance while simplifying administration for MSPs. New capabilities include a 7-day onboarding grace period for new tenants, broader support for Resellers, Aggregators, and Child Companies, improved auditability through approval reason tracking and configuration change notifications, streamlined MSP group management, scope-based policy configuration, and granular operation-level exclusion controls. These enhancements help MSPs enforce security policies with greater flexibility, visibility, and operational efficiency across their managed environments.

MSP-Level Cloud Discovery for Azure and AWS in Commvault Console

This feature enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to discover and manage Azure and AWS cloud resources across tenants directly from the Global Command Center -without requiring tenant access.

By providing a centralized view of discovery connections across all tenants, it helps enhance visibility, streamline operations, and reduce administrative overhead. At the same time, it helps maintain strict tenant-level data isolation while preserving full discovery and protection capabilities within each individual tenant.

VMWare: Recover VMware virtual machines into HPE VME (Morpheus)

This new feature lets customers restore VMware vSphere virtual machines directly into HPE VME (Morpheus), eliminating manual conversion or rebuilding. By simplifying cross-platform recovery, it reduces migration time and risk-helping customers transition to HPE VME with greater confidence and ease.

Storage Solutions

Advisory: Commvault Storage family - An update to the HyperScale name

We are simplifying the Commvault family of on-prem storage options and renaming those products for greater market clarity. Together, our offerings will be known as the Commvault Storage family.  

• HyperScale X, our integrated appliance, will now be known as Commvault Grid.  

• HyperScale Flex, our flexible and scale-out deployment option, will now be known as Commvault Flex.  

• HyperScale Edge, our edge and branch offering, will be known as Commvault Edge.  

The changes to these product names in-product and on our documentation site will be rolling out over the coming months. 

Workload Protection

Accelerate AWS Disaster Recovery with Snapshot-Based Auto Recovery

Customers can now use Auto Recovery to replicate AWS snapshots and orchestrate failover between production and disaster recovery environments. By leveraging native AWS snapshots, organizations can achieve faster failover and reduced data loss while simplifying disaster recovery operations.

Customers can choose between streaming backups or AWS snapshots for replication and recovery, providing the flexibility to align disaster recovery strategies with their performance, recovery time, and cost objectives. This expanded choice helps organizations improve resilience, reduce downtime, and recover critical applications more quickly when disruptions occur.

Amazon RDS and Aurora: Auto-Scaling Compute for Optimized Snapshot-Based Protection

This feature introduces auto-provisioning of compute resources that dynamically scales based on the size and growth of protected databases. It reduces manual configuration while helping optimize performance and efficiency for snapshot-based protection-particularly in large or rapidly growing environments. The result is simplified operations, reduced management overhead, and data protection that scales with business demands.

Amazon Redshift: Air-Gapped Backups for Long-Term Retention and Compliance

This feature enables customers to export and schedule long-term backups of Amazon Redshift data and metadata to Commvault's air-gapped storage. By providing secure, isolated retention for critical data, it helps organizations meet compliance requirements, strengthen cyber resilience, and improve business continuity and recovery flexibility.

AWS EC2: Deliver Application-Consistent Backups for Critical Workloads

Commvault now supports application-consistent backups for AWS EC2 workloads by orchestrating AWS Systems Manager scripts before and after snapshots, helping preserve application state across Linux and Windows environments while providing visibility into execution through backup job logs.

Azure Databricks: Protect and Recover Delta Tables and Workspace Configurations

Commvault now protects Azure Databricks catalogs, delta tables, and workspace configurations, enabling reliable recovery after incidents such as accidental deletions or data corruption. This capability helps restore both data and associated metadata to a consistent state, reducing downtime and supporting data resilience for analytics and AI workloads.

Customers can see the full list of supported Databricks resources here: Supported Databricks resources

Certify and Support SAP HANA database encrypted with Local secure store (LSS)

This feature enables backup administrators to back up and restore SAP HANA encrypted databases that use Local Secure Store (LSS) keys. 

Convert Azure VMs for OpenStack Recovery

GCP Virtual Machines: Automated Discovery and Policy-Based Protection with Tags and Groups

This feature unifies resource discovery under a single scope, automatically identifying and categorizing all assets across workloads. Customers can easily create rules for grouping and protection, streamlining onboarding and helping establish comprehensive coverage. This reduces fragmented configurations, enhances visibility, simplifies asset management, and workload protection with reduced errors.

Google Cloud Bigtable: Scalable Backup and Recovery for Instances and Tables

This feature helps enable administrators to back up and restore Bigtable instances, providing comprehensive data protection and reliable recovery. It supports fast, consistent restoration for compliance requirements and disaster recovery scenarios, helping to reduce risk and improve operational resilience.

Google Cloud Database: Unified onboarding across Software and SaaS deployments

Informix: Simplified Protection and Recovery of Configuration and ixbar Metadata Files

This feature protects Informix configuration and emergency boot files, helping enable customers to quickly restore their database environment and backup metadata information during disasters. With simplified backup and recovery of ixbar, administrators can improve disaster recovery readiness and reduce the risk of recovery delays caused by lost or corrupted metadata files.

Oracle Database 26ai: Advanced RMAN Protection and Recovery

This feature adds support for Oracle Database 26ai RMAN backup and recovery across standalone deployments, IntelliSnap, Exadata, block-level backup, and instant recovery workflows. It provides comprehensive protection and flexible recovery options, helps enable organizations to safeguard critical Oracle data, accelerate recovery operations, and maintain business continuity in the event of data loss or system disruptions.

Oracle: Incremental Intellisnap integration with RMAN for efficient, Low-Impact Backups

Commvault now enhances Oracle IntelliSnap Image Copy with support for incremental backup copies-using either filesystem-based or RMAN-based methods-to snap-capable NFS volumes. This enables faster, more efficient Oracle database protection while reducing reliance on Commvault drivers and proprietary Oracle storage interfaces. RMAN-based recovery is fully preserved, making this capability ideal for Oracle appliance and Exadata environments that require high-performance, low-impact backup and recovery operations.

PostgreSQL: Optimized Log Backup Support on Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization VM Protection

OpenShift Virtualization support is now generally available, extending Kubernetes protection to include virtual machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Previously available through the Early Adopter program, this release enables protection of both containerized workloads and virtual machines through a unified platform. Customers can perform in-place and out-of-place VM restores, along with enterprise-grade file-level recovery and network-optimized restores, delivering consistent protection across the data estate. This capability is available in Commvault version 11.42 for both Software and SaaS.

SMB/CIFS Share Backup on Nutanix Files and Qumulo: Enhanced Performance with Linux Access Nodes

Customers using IntelliSnap backups on Nutanix and protecting Qumulo SMB/CIFS shares can now leverage Linux access nodes to help enhance and optimize performance. This approach reduces exposure associated with traditional access methods while delivering more efficient data movement and improved backup reliability.

Snowflake: Backup and Recovery

Commvault now delivers policy-driven backup and recovery for Snowflake databases, schemas, and tables, extending protection beyond native Time Travel limits. The solution enables long-term, immutable retention with granular recovery of data and metadata, helping organizations reduce data loss, control reprocessing costs, and support compliance requirements.

Virtual Machines: Enhance Metadata Collection to include OS Disk Identity and LVM Space Usage

Commvault automatically identifies guest VM's OS/boot disk and computes LVM usage, enabling system administrators to accurately report disk utilization. This simplified metadata collection helps establish effortless resource planning and migration to the cloud, providing administrators with efficient operations and better-informed decisions without manual intervention.