Changes in Commvault Platform Release 2022E

Commvault Platform Release 2022E

Commvault

The Commvault End User License and Limited Warranty Agreement has been updated.

End User License and Limited Warranty Agreement

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Active Directory

When you select an Active Directory object, the attributes of the object are not listed on the Command Center.

Previously, the attributes of the selected objects were listed on the Command Center.

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Hadoop

The Commvault installer automatically installs the NoSQL package when the Hadoop package is upgraded to Commvault Platform Release 2022E.

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Audit Trail

You can use the EnableAuditForBrowseAndFind additional setting to record browse and find operations for File System, Virtualization, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Salesforce in the audit trail report.

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Company

In the Command Center, you can modify the settings (such as associations and activity control) of the company's default server group from the Overview tab available within the company page.

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DR Backups

Automatic uploads of DR Backups to Commvault Cloud Services Portal is enabled by default for new CommServe server installations. (The setting is not affected on existing CommServe server installations upgrading from a previous version.)

Uploading DR Backups to Commvault Cloud Services Portal

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Event Viewer

You can use the bCreateEventForLoginAndLogout additional setting to enable the Web Console and CommCell Console to generate events when a user performs successful login and logout.

Viewing Events for Successful Login and Logout

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Laptop Plans

A new toggle key is added to the Edit plan dialog boxes at the CommCell and company levels to automatically assign default plans to laptops that are installed using an authorization code.

• Setting Default Plans

• Adding a Default Plan for Laptops in Companies

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Name Management

You can now modify only the client host name and not the client name, using the CommCell Console.

Consider changing the display name of a client instead of changing the client name.

Changing the Display Name of a Client Computer

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Server Backup Plans

You can change the time zone associated to a server plan.

Additionally, you can add exceptions to backup schedules in a server plan, during which scheduled backups will not run.

• Creating a Server Plan

• Modifying a Server Plan

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HyperScale Dashboard

The HyperScale dashboard can be accessed using one of the following methods:

• By clicking the HyperScale link, displayed in the Environment section of the Overview Dashboard.

• By selecting the HyperScale Dashboard option from the Overview Dashboard, list displayed at the top of the page.

  The HyperScale dashboard is no longer the default dashboard when a HyperScale storage pool is configured.

HyperScale Dashboard

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Data Aging

When a time change on the CommServe server is detected, the system temporarily stops data aging jobs. The system then asks the user to confirm the time change via email, or via an alert in the Process Manager.

Confirming CommServe Server Time Change

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Disk Library

The Run Space Reclamation dialog box now includes a Defragmentation check box to enable or disable defragmenting unused data blocks during a space reclamation job. You must select at least one defragmentation option to proceed further.

Previously, defragmentation is run whenever you run a space reclamation job.

Space Reclamation - Online Help

Performing a Space Reclamation Operation on Deduplicated Data

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Amazon Web Services

Incorrect uses of the term "Amazon" were replaced with "Amazon Web Services" or "AWS".

Databases

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Oracle RAC

When getting Oracle RAC instance properties with the GetRACInstance.xml file, you must add the "-propertyLevel 30" parameter to return all the instance property information.

Command Line Interface - Configuration - Oracle RAC Agent

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Amazon Web Services and Azure hypervisors

VM, disk, and network interface tags are preserved during Azure to Azure replication and disaster recovery operations.

Instance and volume tags are preserved during AWS to Azure replication and disaster recovery operations.

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Guided Setup

The term Cloud Apps has been replaced with DevOps on the Guided Setup page.

To configure Azure DevOps and Github, click DevOps.

Configuring Solutions in the Command Center

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.NET Core

The Commvault installer automatically installs .NET Core 6.0.1.

Previously, the Commvault installer installed .NET Core 3.1.18.

Third Party Applications Installed by the Commvault Installer

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Secure UNIX Access Permissions

Secure UNIX access permissions are enabled by default for all new installations.

Secure UNIX Access Permissions

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Laptop

You can automatically map laptop owners to laptops that are installed using an authorization code.

Additionally, you can automatically assign owners to laptops that are already installed.

Mapping Laptop Owners to Laptops Installed Using Authorization Code

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Laptop

To manage offline laptops, Commvault recommends that you configure laptops to retire when they are offline for 6 months and configure offline laptops to be deleted after 1 year.

Retiring Offline Laptops in the CommCell Environment as an MSP Administrator

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License Summary Report

All license usage for VMs now appears under Virtual Operating Instances in the License Summary Report.

Data Views for the License Summary Report

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Network

In an MSP environment, the system will not generate a network route from Server 1 in Tenant A to Server 2 in Tenant B, because the servers belong to different tenants. This limitation enhances security for both tenants.

For example, if a cascading network gateway topology is created, and if a tenant server group contains servers from multiple tenants, and if the tenant backup network gateway group contains gateways from multiple tenants, the system will generate a network route from Server 1 of Tenant A to a tenant gateway server of Tenant A only. Server 1 will not generate a network route towards the gateway server of Tenant B.

For more information, see Configuring a Cascading Network Topology for Tenants that Connect Through a Local Gateway.

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Health Report

The following tiles were removed from the Health Report:

• High-Risk Settings

• RTO

• Largest 25 Clients

• DDB Partition counts per MediaAgent

• Deduplication Ratio For The Last 30 Days

• Unused Schedule Policies

• Storage Policy Space Usage

Data Views for the Health Report

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• License Summary Report

• License Summary Worldwide Report

• Subclient Peak Usage Report

• Company Usage Report

All VM license usage is consolidated under the VOI license in both the License Summary Report, the License Summary Worldwide Report, the Subclient Peak Usage Report, and the Company Usage Report.

• Consolidation Rules for Purchased and Used Virtualization Instances (VOI) in the License Summary Report

• Virtual Operating Instances in the License Summary Report

• License Summary Report

• License Summary Worldwide Report

• Subclient Peak Usage Report

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• REST API for the License Summary Report

• REST API for the License Summary Worldwide Report

• REST API for Subclient Peak Usage Report

• REST API for Company Usage Report

For REST API users, the data set ID for the Virtual Operating Instances drill down has changed in the License Summary, License Summary Worldwide, Subclient Peak Usage, and Company Usage reports.

Additionally, several tables have been added and table names have been changed in these reports. Many columns have also been updated within these tables.

• Virtual Operating Instances in the License Summary Report

• License Summary Report

• License Summary Worldwide Report

• Subclient Peak Usage Report

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License Peak Usage Report

The License Peak Usage report is deprecated and the link to this report is removed from both the License Summary Report and the Company Usage Report.

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License Peak Usage Worldwide Report

The License Peak Usage Worldwide report is deprecated and the link to this report is removed from the License Summary Worldwide Report.

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Infrastructure Resource Utilization Report

The MediaAgent Load and Infrastructure Load reports are no longer available and the information is available on the Infrastructure Resource Utilization report.

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Two-factor authentication

The security key verification for two-factor authentication (which is a form of multi-factor authentication) is called web authenticator.

A web authenticator supports a platform authenticator and a roaming authenticator. A user can add more than one web authenticator type to the CommCell user account.

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Storage Policies

For non-deduplicated storage policies that are created with any valid retention criteria other than infinite retention, the Enable Managed Disk Space for Disk Library setting is disabled by default. Previously, the setting was enabled by default.

Configuring Thresholds for Managed Disk Space

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Air Gap Protect

Compliance lock prevents manual changes or deletions of cloud data including backups, storage, apps, servers and backup destination copies, even by administrators, until the end of the retention period. Compliance lock is enabled by default for Air Gap Protect. However, if not enabled, you should enable compliance lock manually.

Configuring Air Gap Protect

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HyperScale X

When you configure firewall on the HyperScale nodes, the CS registration and data protection interfaces are added to the 'blocked' zone by default. You can also configure the firewall to disallow SSH service on the blocked zone and enable SSH only on the private zone (cv_storage_zone). Rich rules are applied automatically to enable the SSH access between the nodes within the HyperScale cluster on the cv_storage_zone.

Previously, the CS registration and data protection interfaces were added to the 'Public' zone by default and SSH communication was enabled on all the nodes in the public and private zone.

Enabling Firewall on HyperScale X

Disk Backup Location and Cloud Backup Location

When a user deletes a backup location with backup data, the deletion must be approved by at least one administrator. You can use the DeleteLibraryMountPathAuthorization workflow to specify the minimum number of administrators required to approve the deletion. The requestor is not considered as one of the administrators to approve the deletion.

Configuring the Administrators to Authorize the Storage Deletion

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All VM-Centric hypervisors

For any new Commvault deployment after SP 28, Indexing Version 2 is enabled by default for any newly created hypervisor, and new virtualization clients automatically use Indexing Version 2 to support VM-centric operations, unless V1 is explicitly chosen. Other existing Indexing V1 Virtualization Clients can remain.

Requirements for VM-Centric Operations

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Amazon Web Services

Incorrect uses of the term "Amazon" were replaced with "Amazon Web Services" or "AWS".

Amazon Web Services

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Indexing Version 2

The following hypervisors now support Indexing Version 2:

• Citrix Xen hypervisor now supports Indexing Version 2 (Command Center and CommCell Console).

• Oracle VM hypervisor now supports Indexing Version 2 (CommCell Console only).

  Indexing Version 2 is enabled by default when you create a new hypervisor for Citrix Xen or for Oracle VM.

Hypervisor Support for Indexing Version 2

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Azure

Network interface card (NIC) tags are preserved during Azure to Azure restores and replication.

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Azure

For Azure, you can install the Virtual Server agent package on an access node that has either the Windows or Linux operating system.

Previously, the Commvault software supported only the Windows operating system.

Access Node Requirements for Azure

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VMware

When you add multiple access nodes to a VMware instance or subclient, backup copy operations do not use all access nodes to mount snapshots, and subsequently for backup copy operations. The optimal number of nodes is selected based on the VMs and disks involved in the backup copy operation.

Previously, all access nodes specified at the instance level or at the subclient level were used to mount snapshots, irrespective of whether those nodes were used in the backup copy operation.

Multinode Backup Copy for the VMware Agent

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Workflow Installs

The owner of all new installed workflows is the Commvault System Administrator user, by default. However, you can take ownership of a workflow, if required.

Taking Ownership of a Workflow