Support for Cluster Configuration

You can configure and manage Windows and UNIX Cluster Group clients from the CommCell Console. For more information on Cluster Configuration, see Cluster Configuration - Overview.

Note

Commvault installations are not supported on Windows 2003 Server (and below) cluster environments.

The following table lists the supported cluster types for each component. In addition, the following components are also supported on clusters:

  • CommServe

  • MediaAgent

  • Metrics Reporting

  • Web Server

  • Workflow Engine

For UNIX operating systems, PowerHA for AIX (formerly HACMP), HP ServiceGuard, Linux, Sun Solaris and Veritas clusters are supported. In general, clusters are supported if the operating system supports clustering. This list does not include information on specific cluster versions or operating systems.

Backup

Netware cluster

UNIX Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Comments

Active Directory

DB2

tick

tick

DB2 DPF

DB2 pureScale

Documentum

tick

tick

Exchange Database

Exchange Mailbox (Classic)

Exchange Public Folder

Google Mail and Google Drive

GPFS

Hadoop

IBM i File System

IBM Notes Database

IBM Notes Document

Image Level

Informix

tick

Macintosh File System

Microsoft SharePoint Server

Microsoft SQL Server

tick

tick

Microsoft Cluster supports Geo-Dispersed Cluster

Microsoft Windows File Systems

tick

tick

  • Scale-Out File Server for Application Data is supported.

  • Scale-Out File Server for Application Data is supported.

MySQL

tick

tick

Linux cluster is supported. Other UNIX flavors are not supported.

NDMP

NFS

OES File System

tick

OpenVMS File System

Oracle

tick

tick

Oracle RAC

PostgreSQL

tick

tick

Salesforce

SAP for MaxDB

tick

tick

SAP for Oracle

tick

tick

SAP HANA

tick

Sybase

tick

tick

UNIX File Systems

tick

AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris support VERITAS Cluster

Archive

Netware cluster

UNIX Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Comments

Domino Mailbox Archiver

Exchange Compliance Archiver

Exchange Mailbox

Exchange Mailbox Archiver

Exchange Public Folder Archiver

OnePass for Celerra

tick

tick

OnePass for Exchange Mailbox (Classic)

OnePass for Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

tick

tick

OnePass for NetApp

tick

tick

OnePass for Network Shares

tick

tick

OnePass for UNIX

tick

Stubs created in mixed-mode clusters are not supported

OnePass for Windows

tick

tick

Oracle Archiving

tick

tick

Replication

Netware cluster

UNIX Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Comments

ContinuousDataReplicator

tick

tick

For UNIX, cluster is supported on Source Volumes.

Virtualization

Netware cluster

UNIX Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Comments

Amazon

Citrix Xen

FusionCompute

KVM

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Hyper-V

tick

In a Hyper-V cluster, virtual machines are protected by installing the Virtual Server iDataAgent on all physical nodes of the cluster.

Nutanix AHV

OpenStack

Oracle Cloud

Oracle VM

oVirt

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

VMware

Laptop

Netware cluster

UNIX Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

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Laptop Backup (Linux)

Laptop Backup (Macintosh)

Laptop Backup (Windows)

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