New Features for Storage Management in 11.20

Remote Office Appliance RO1200 Released on November 15, 2020

Remote Office Appliance RO1200 provides a powerful, cost effective, fully-integrated solution to protect, recover, and access data from remote locations.

For more inform about Remote Office Appliance RO1200, see Remote Office Appliance RO1200.

Metallic Recovery Reserve

You can now configure Metallic Recovery Reserve as a storage target.

For more information, see Metallic Recovery Reserve.

HyperScale X Appliance Appliance Released on July 21, 2020

Commvault HyperScale^TM X Appliance delivers Commvault’s industry leading technology in a scale-out infrastructure that simplifies hybrid cloud data protection to provide the following features:

• Simple, flexible data protection for all workloads including containers, virtual machines, and databases.

• Optimized scalability to easily grow as needed, on-premise and cloud environments.

• Trusted security and resiliency including built-in ransomware protection.

For more information about the appliance, see HyperScale X Appliance.

Enhanced Cloud Storage Archive Recall workflow

The Cloud Storage Archive Recall workflow is enhanced with the following new features:

• Support for new agents using the workflow. For more information, see Restoring Data from Archive Cloud Storage Using a Workflow - Supported Agents.

• Ability to recall Index Data using the workflow. For more information, see Recalling Index Data from Archive Cloud Storage.

Support for New Storage Classes for Configuring Cloud Storage Libraries in Command Center

Several new storage classes are now supported in the Command Center for the following cloud storage libraries:

• Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service can now be configured using the following storage classes:

  • Standard/Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Infrequent Access/Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

• Amazon S3 can now be configured using the following storage classes:

  • Standard/Glacier (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Standard-IA/Glacier (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • One Zone-IA/Glacier (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Intelligent-Tiering/Glacier (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Standard/Deep Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Standard-IA/Deep Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • One Zone-IA/Deep Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Intelligent-Tiering/Deep Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Reduced Redundancy Storage

• Microsoft Azure Storage can now be configured using the following storage classes:

  • Hot/Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

  • Cool/Archive (Combined Storage Tiers)

For more information, see Cloud Provider Information.

Support for New Authentication Types for Configuring Cloud Storage Libraries in Command Center

Several new authentication types are now supported in the Command Center for the following cloud storage libraries:

• Amazon S3 can now be configured using the following authentication types:

  • Access and secret keys

  • AWS IAM role policy

  • AWS STS assume role

  • AWS STS assume role IAM role policy

• Microsoft Azure Storage can now be configured using the following authentication types:

  • Access and Secret Keys

  • IAM VM role assignment

  • IAM AD application role assignment (Credential Manager)

For more information, see Cloud Provider Information.