# Newsletter for New Features in Long-Term Support Release 11.44

Review the newsletter for new features in Long-Term Support Release 11.44.

## May 2026

### Commvault Cloud Console

#### Adding cloud discovery and onboarding flow to Commvault Console

This feature allows users to quickly find and protect cloud resources through an easy onboarding process and clear dashboard views. It enables users to see resource details and compare protection costs, helping them manage security and make informed decisions with less effort and greater confidence.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Automated Azure Cloud Space Reclamation Policy

Extend space reclamation to Azure environments in a way that lowers storage costs without introducing egress charges. By using Azure storage APIs, unused space is reclaimed efficiently while keeping all operations in-region. The result is predictable cost savings with minimal administrative effort and full control when needed.

#### Cloud Rewind: Secure App & Function Backups with Restricted Storage to help improve data protection and compliance.

Maintain strict network controls on your Storage Accounts to protect Azure App Services and Function Apps, while helping enable backups to operate seamlessly within your enterprise security framework.

#### Consolidated DDB Metrics & Report in Command Center

A new Consolidated DDB Operational Status Dashboard provides a unified view of DDB performance, capacity trends, and backup health directly within Storage Pool views. This feature replaces multiple separate reports with a single, role-based interface accessible to Tenant Admins and Users, providing clear visibility into performance issues, growth trends, and operational status across Software and SaaS environments.

#### Unified Disk and Cloud Library Growth Report

To help with capacity planning and forecasting, this feature provides a single, easy-to-use report that shows disk and cloud storage usage, growth trends, and future needs. The report enables users to quickly analyze capacity, forecast shortages, and export data so teams can plan ahead, optimize storage, and avoid unexpected issues with capacity.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Orchestrated recovery of latest SQL database transactions into Azure cleanroom

This feature automatically restores most recent SQL database transactions directly into a recovered virtual machine within the Azure Cleanroom environment. It streamlines the process by automatically registering the recovered VMs and applying the latest database records to confirm data consistency and minimal loss. By automating these critical steps, the feature helps customers accelerate database validation, maintain operational continuity, and strengthen their overall cyber-recovery posture.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### MSP Customer Health Report - Unified in Commvault Console

This feature transitions the existing MSP Customer Health Report into Commvault Console, establishing it as the primary single pane of glass for MSP operations. The report continues to deliver the same aggregated customer health insights, now backed by improved platform stability and a more reliable, consistent user experience. By centralizing customer health visibility, MSPs can more easily monitor service quality, support day-to-day operations, and maintain proactive service management.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### DevOps: Incremental Backup Support for Azure DevOps & GitHub

Incremental backups are now supported for Azure DevOps and GitHub, helping reduce backup times and API usage by capturing only changes after the initial full backup. Existing customers will be automatically transitioned with no action required. New customers will begin using incremental backups after their first full backup job. An on-demand full backup option will remain available.

#### Microsoft Power Platform Data Protection Support

Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft Power Platform is now generally available, starting with support for Power BI. Customers can now protect business-critical assets, like reports, through automated backups of Power BI workspace content and granular recovery for reports and folders - helping reduce downtime and limit disruption from accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious activity.

#### Salesforce Archiving

Commvault Cloud support for Salesforce Archiving is now Generally Available (GA), enabling organizations to manage long-term data retention alongside backup within a single, unified solution.

With Archiving included as part of the Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Salesforce offering, customers can automatically move and retain aging or infrequently used data without requiring additional licensing, separate SKUs, or standalone tools. This integrated approach helps simplify operations while delivering a more predictable and cost-effective model.
The solution offers unlimited storage and retention, helping organizations optimize performance, control costs, and support compliance requirements at scale.

This solution helps teams:

- Reduce Salesforce storage costs and improve performance by offloading inactive data

- Meet regulatory and compliance requirements with policy-driven, long-term data retention

- Simplify data management with a unified solution for both backup and archiving, eliminating the need for multiple products or licenses

### Storage Solutions

#### Air Gap Protect Frequent Access and Infrequent Access Storage tiers

Air Gap Protect, a fully managed storage service, is now available as both Frequent Access Storage and Infrequent Access Storage tiers in multiple clouds at a lower cost than previous tiers. Your backups are immutable by default with industry-leading security, scalability, and performance for protection against accidental or malicious deletion. The new Frequent Access and Infrequent Access storage tiers are consistent across cloud providers to provide alignment for customer needs and demands. Commvault handles the configuration of provisioning and protecting your critical backups from cyber threats and bad actors.

### Workload Protection

#### Amazon RDS: Storage-Efficient Export-Based Backups for Oracle Using Amazon EFS Integration

This feature enables administrators to integrate Amazon EFS with their RDS for Oracle instance to support export-based backups. By offloading backup storage to EFS, it allows large datasets to be handled efficiently without consuming local instance storage. The approach helps streamline backup workflows, reduce storage overhead and associated costs, and minimize manual intervention, improving overall operational efficiency.

#### Amazon S3: Inventory report scanning

This feature uses inventory reports to list objects in Amazon S3 buckets, enabling customers to scan buckets with high object counts much faster than with traditional scanning.

#### Amazon S3: Protection group support

This feature adds Amazon S3 to protection group support.
Use protection groups to automatically protect AWS resources across multiple accounts based on rules such as workload type, region, and tags. Protection groups eliminate the need to manually configure protection for each resource.

#### Azure Blob: Automatic Access Node Provisioning and Scaling - Optimizes performance and scalability while reducing operational overhead

Azure Blob now supports automatic provisioning and scaling of access nodes, allowing the system to dynamically adjust resources in response to workload demands. This enhances performance and operational efficiency while reducing management overhead and simplifying infrastructure operations.

#### Azure Blob: Faster Incremental Backup Scans with Change Feed

This feature leverages the Azure Change Feed to detect storage-level changes, allowing you to perform efficient incremental scans instead of full rescans. By processing only newly added or modified data, it significantly reduces scan time and resource consumption. The result is a more streamlined, up-to-date backup workflow with minimal operational overhead.

#### Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2): Autoscaling

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) now supports automatic provisioning and scaling of access nodes, helping enable the system to dynamically adjust resources based on workload demands. This capability helps improve performance and operational efficiency while simplifying infrastructure management.

#### Google Cloud Storage: Event based scan for incremental backups

This feature scans the changes in your Google Cloud Storage backups using storage events, enabling you to save time and complete incremental scans faster. It helps you keep your backup process efficient and up to date, so you can focus on your work without unnecessary delays.

#### Google Cloud Storage: Inventory report scan for full backups

This feature uses Google Cloud Storage Inventory Reports for full backups where the object count is >500M, removing the need to scanning every object. It helps users save time and costs, making large data backups easier, faster, and more scalable.

#### OCI Instance Principal Support for Secure Access

This feature allows organizations to use OCI Instance Principal to access Oracle Cloud resources needed for protection. It improves security by reducing the need for stored credentials and aligns with Oracle Cloud best practices. It also simplifies setup for organizations that prefer policy-based access control.

#### Pinecone: Backup and Recovery

Commvault now provides backup and recovery for Pinecone indexes, enabling point-in-time recovery of vector data. This capability helps safeguard against user errors and ransomware while supporting long-term compliance and data lineage for AI and machine learning workloads.

#### Protect and Recover S3NS Cloud Workloads with Commvault

Commvault now supports backup and recovery for VM instances in S3NS cloud environments. Teams can configure S3NS as a cloud provider, discover workloads, and run policy-driven backups and granular recoveries via Command Center and REST APIs. Built to handle S3NS-specific nuances-such as unique endpoints and project structures-the integration ensures consistent, reliable data protection across the cloud estate.

#### SQL Server: Support for SQL Server Management Studio 22

This feature provides certified support for SQL Server Management Studio 22, enabling seamless integration with Commvault for backup and recovery of SQL databases, so users can protect and restore their data with confidence.

## April 2026

### Commvault Cloud Console

#### Simplify protection management across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments

Organizations can now use Commvault Console to unify protection across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments. Easily connect Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and on-premises workloads to gain centralized visibility, continuously discover cloud resources, and apply consistent protection policies across your entire environment.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### AWS Protection Groups: Scale Protection Across Accounts in Minutes

Automatically protect diverse workloads spread across multiple AWS accounts using rule-based onboarding - reducing onboarding time from days to minutes, minimizing risk and ensuring continuous protection without gaps.

#### Bring Your Own Storage with FETB+ Metering (Marketplaces)

This feature lets customers use their own cloud storage while still delivering consistent FETB+ capacity metering and clear, centralized usage reporting. It gives you clear control over how much you use across environments. This helps you bill accurately, track your usage, and manage your licenses more easily. It also helps you meet your storage needs and security requirements. This is currently only available through marketplaces.

#### Cloud Rewind: Faster Recovery for App Services with Private Endpoint Restore

Rebuild Azure App Services and Function Apps with their associated Private Endpoints, enabling faster return to a secure, production-ready state while minimizing downtime and operational complexity.

#### Cloud Rewind: Flexible Recovery for AWS Configuration-Only Assemblies

Cloud Rewind now helps recovery of AWS configuration-only assemblies into existing VPCs and supports selective resource restoration using tags-giving teams greater flexibility to streamline recovery workflows, eliminate redundant infrastructure, and restore environments more efficiently.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Application Gateway for Function Apps

Rebuild Application Gateways associated with Function Apps, ensuring seamless restoration of application connectivity while minimizing downtime.

#### Fair Usage and Service protection for backup workloads

Management API connections now automatically throttle excessive or abusive requests to protect platform stability. Rate limits apply consistently across distributed, multi-instance environments, preventing any single client or integration from degrading API responsiveness for others.

#### Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Resource Discovery and Protection

This feature serves to identify and protect key Google Cloud resources, such as GKE clusters, virtual machines, object storage, SQL databases, and provides storage inclusive offerings. It enables customers to systematically inventory and secure essential assets, reducing downtime, supporting recovery objectives, and facilitating compliance requirements. By establishing a comprehensive asset management framework, users can gain visibility into their cloud environment, helping them prioritize security measures and allocate resources more efficiently.

#### Protect GCP-Native Workloads with Commvault Cloud on Google Cloud Marketplace

Commvault Cloud is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier for organizations to protect their GCP-native workloads with the resilience, recovery, and security they need in the cloud. Customers can now more easily adopt Commvault to safeguard services running in Google Cloud, while aligning procurement with their existing cloud commitments and purchasing motions.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Automated Ransomware Recovery with Cisco XDR

Commvault’s integration with Cisco XDR operationalizes Cisco’s detection and response workflows by triggering policy-based, point-in-time protection for impacted virtual machines directly from the XDR console. As incidents unfold, Commvault creates secure, immutable backup copies that preserve evidence, improve recovery-point coverage, and provide rapid visibility into protected workloads and data criticality. Organizations can then orchestrate recovery to the Commvault Cleanroom to validate integrity and restore systems in a known-good state, or to mount and analyze recovered copies for deeper forensics and incident triage.

#### HashiCorp Vault Integration for Credential Vault

This feature adds HashiCorp Vault as a third-party credential vault option, enabling users to request and obtain just-in-time passwords and secrets directly from their Vault. It helps them centralize credential management, reduce exposure of long-lived passwords, and simplify secure access setup for both SaaS and software deployments.

#### Improved Credential Vault Management

The new Credential Details page within the Command Center provides detailed information on what credentials are associated with which entities across the Commvault platform. This capability will enable admins to better understand and manage credentials within their Credential Vault and improve auditability, transparency, and operational safety.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### (MSP) Endpoint: Bare Metal Backup For Laptops

This feature enables full recovery of endpoint devices including OS configuration, registry, and system-critical files in the event of corruption or hardware failure.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### Active Directory Auditing (Early Adopter)

Gain deep visibility into Active Directory changes with real-time auditing and historical tracking. This feature captures detailed information on identity, group, and policy changes, helping security and IT teams quickly identify suspicious activity, investigate incidents, and support compliance mandates.

The solution automatically highlights sensitive and high-risk security changes, such as privilege escalations, delegation updates, and policy modifications, and enables administrators to take immediate action by rolling back changes directly from the audit event. This helps reduce risk and accelerate response to identity-based threats.

This feature is available in Early Adopter and will be included with the Active Directory Advanced Edition license.

#### Active Directory Vulnerability Assessments

Proactively identify and remediate security weaknesses in Active Directory with built-in vulnerability assessments. This feature continuously evaluates AD configurations against best practices and known attack paths, surfacing misconfigurations, excessive privileges, and other high-risk exposures.

With clear findings and actionable guidance, organizations can strengthen their identity security posture and reduce exposure to threats such as ransomware and privilege escalation.

This feature does not require a separate Active Directory license.

#### Attribute-level recovery for Entra ID

Attribute-level recovery is now available for Entra ID, enabling administrators to surgically roll back specific attribute changes across many objects without restoring entire objects from backup. This eliminates the risk of overwriting legitimate changes while still quickly correcting unwanted modifications caused by human error or malicious activity.

Integrated with enhanced Comparison Reports, administrators can now identify which attributes were changed most broadly, filter by those attributes, and initiate targeted recovery directly from the report. This enables faster recovery from scenarios like errant PowerShell scripts, where a single mistake can impact thousands of objects at once, without introducing additional disruption.
This feature is available with the Active Directory Standard Edition license.

#### Enhanced Protection for Entra ID Access and Permissions

We've expanded our Entra ID protection to cover additional identity governance and access control scenarios that are critical to maintaining secure environments. This includes support for backing up and restoring Azure role assignments, helping organizations recover access to Azure resources granted to users and groups following an incident.

Additional enhancements include support for Privileged Identity Management (PIM)-enabled groups and custom security attributes, further extending coverage of modern Entra ID configurations. Together, these updates help organizations more fully recover not just directory objects, but also the access, permissions, and governance models built around them.
Available with the Active Directory Standard Edition license.

#### Okta Granular Protection (Early Adopter)

Gain comprehensive protection for your Okta environment with automated backup and granular recovery of critical identity objects. This capability continuously captures full and incremental snapshots of users, groups, applications, and policies, storing them securely in immutable, air-gapped storage. With point-in-time recovery, IT and security teams can quickly restore individual objects or entire configurations, enabling business continuity and minimizing the impact of accidental changes, misconfigurations, or malicious activity.

The solution also provides deep visibility and control over configuration changes, enabling teams to compare backups against live environments and selectively restore only what's needed down to specific attributes without disrupting unaffected settings. Built-in scheduling, retention management, and intelligent handling of object dependencies help streamline operations and enable consistent, reliable recovery across complex environments.

This capability will be available in an Early Adopter release in April 2026, with General Availability planned for summer 2026.

#### Salesforce Restore Preview

This feature enables administrators to preview data selected for restoration, allowing them to verify its accuracy before proceeding. It helps prevent accidental overwrites of important production data, safeguarding data integrity and providing greater confidence in the restore process.

### Workload Protection

#### Accelerate VM Recovery with AHV Live Recovery

Nutanix AHV Live Recovery allows virtualization administrators to quickly reactivate protected VMs from backup snapshots through Commvault. This feature reduces downtime during disaster recovery, patch testing, or accidental VM deletions by enabling near-instant VM recovery in production scenarios. By streamlining incident response workflows, it improves RTO and minimizes business disruptions during unplanned outages.

#### Amazon EC2: Auto-provisioning and Auto-scaling of resources

Amazon EC2’s auto-provisioning and auto-scaling feature allows businesses to dynamically adjust resource allocation based on real-time demand. This minimizes manual intervention, establishes simple scalability, and enhances cost-efficiency, providing customers with optimized performance, reduced downtime, and predictable billing, ultimately supporting business growth and customer satisfaction.

#### Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP: Auto-provisioning and auto scaling of access nodes

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports auto-provisioning and auto scaling of access nodes.

#### Amazon S3: Faster incremental scans of Amazon S3 data using Amazon S3 metadata tables

Amazon S3 scanning is now integrated with Amazon S3 metadata tables to reduce the scan time and API usage during incremental backups.

#### Big Data Workloads: Onboarding

Customers can now onboard the following workloads in SaaS:
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
Couchbase
CockroachDB
YugabyteDB
Splunk

#### Data Import: Import Avamar protected NDMP data into Commvault

This feature enables administrators to efficiently import Avamar long-term protected NDMP data to Commvault with improved performance and scalability, making it easier to manage and safeguard data with Commvault. It also allows for streamlined browsing and restoration of the imported data from the Command Center.

#### Informix: Improved Log Backup Performance with Disk Cache

This feature enables frequent archive log backup support for Informix databases using the Secure Data Transfer (SDT) pipeline to back up to the configured backup targets (disk library, Cloud library, or HSX), allowing log protection even when the CommServe is offline or in maintenance mode. Archive logs are encrypted and compressed during backup for improved security and efficiency.

#### Red Hat OpenShift VM: Agentless File-Level Restore from Full Backups

Granular file recovery for Kubernetes and OpenShift Virtualization enables users to quickly preview and restore individual files from protected volumes or virtual machine backups without recovering entire PVCs or VMs. Built on Commvault's proven architecture, it delivers fast, secure, and scalable recoveries using pod-based data movers, reducing downtime and operational overhead across hybrid environments.

#### Red Hat OpenShift VM: Network-Optimized Backup and Restore

Network-optimized restores for Kubernetes accelerate backup and recovery by using a direct, high-throughput data path that reduces latency, bandwidth usage, and control-plane overhead. This enables faster, more efficient volume restores with minimal disruption, helping users recover data and resume operations with confidence.

#### Sybase ASE: Data Protection and Recovery of Sybase ASE 16.1

Introducing support for SAP Sybase ASE 16.1 enabling administrators to protect and recover the database in standalone and HADR deployments.

## March 2026

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Audit Log Visibility For Resources

Administrators can now view detailed audit logs for individual entities to monitor changes and access events within their Commvault environment. This includes tracking activities such as server modifications, user access updates, and configuration changes.

This feature helps improve security and simplify compliance by enabling transparent tracking of all resource-related actions. Audit data includes detailed entity history, allowing for more accurate analysis, accountability, and informed decision-making.

#### Break Glass Account

This feature provides a secure emergency login account, allowing customers to regain access to Commvault Cloud if they are locked out due to identity configuration issues. It enables them to quickly recover account access without support escalation, minimizing downtime and reducing security risks during lockout events.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure Managed SQL Instance Configuration with associated Private Link

Cloud Rewind automatically rebuilds Azure Manage SQL Instances with essential configurations such as Private Link connectivity, allowing Commvault Cloud to restore SQL Server data into a secure, fully operational production environment accelerating recovery and minimizing business disruption.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure SQL Server along with Local SQL Authentication

Cloud Rewind now enables Azure SQL Server rebuilds with local SQL authentication, allowing faster recovery when Azure AD authentication is unavailable.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure Service Bus and associated Private Link configuration

Rebuild Azure Service Bus namespaces along with their associated Private Link configurations to accelerate recovery, reduce operational effort, and bring applications back to a production-ready state faster.

#### Cost Transparency for Extended Retention and Cross-Cloud Copies

Within the Cost Estimator module, this feature allows customers to select predefined data retention periods and immediately view the projected storage requirements and associated costs for each scenario. By providing instant visibility into cost and capacity impact, it enables more informed decision-making—helping organizations manage expenses effectively while aligning data protection strategies with best practices.

#### Empowering Tenant users with resources visibility

This feature empowers Tenant users to discover and view their own cloud assets directly within the platform, enabling them to view their resources, manage backups and restores as well. By reducing reliance on additional support resources, cloud discovery is enhanced to cover more users thus enhancing the overall customer experience.

#### New Centralized Backup Plan Management Across Cloud Environments

This feature enables users to create, manage, and assign backup plans across their cloud resources through an intuitive experience. Teams can quickly configure schedules and protection settings, easily review and modify existing plans, and apply them consistently across environments. The result is simplified data protection, reduced administrative effort, and greater operational efficiency.

#### Onboard to AWS Faster: Automatically Connect and Configure Multiple Accounts with Ease

Commvault now automatically discovers and onboards multiple AWS accounts, enabling organizations to extend cloud data protection at scale with minimal operational overhead.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Cleanroom recovery support for on-premises cleanroom/IRE (VMware) using HyperScale X

This feature helps users securely recover their control plane and applications into an isolated cleanroom/IRE environment on-premises in a VMware farm using HyperScale X. It enables orchestrated recovery testing and helps customers confidently restore both the control plane and applications after cyber threats, minimizing downtime.

#### Threat Scan: Arlie Insights now available in Threat Scan

Threat Scan introduces Arlie Insights in the detail panel when viewing details of a detected malware threat. This provides AI-enabled threat context, summaries, recommended next steps, and direct links to relevant details and recovery actions. These insights will help streamline threat triage and accelerate remediation by enabling SOC teams to assess and respond to incidents without leaving the Threat Indicator dashboard.

#### Threat Scan: Import and Manage Hashes and YARA Rules in Threat Scan

This feature lets users easily import, organize, and manage hash and YARA rules within their Threat Scan plans, enabling them to deploy consistent, automated scanning across their environment. This will help detect known threats faster utilizing indicators of compromise (IOCs) provided by security operations teams, simplifying interoperability while helping improve security and efficiency.

#### Threat Scan: Intelligent, risk-based scanning for greater Threat Scan efficiency

This feature prioritizes scheduled Threat Scan operations based on risk, by focusing scans on resources with anomalies. Users can enable this within their plans as part of their scheduled scanning configuration. This allows users to focus on the most vulnerable data while reducing scan time and costs.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### Atlassian Jira Backup & Recovery

Commvault Cloud support for Jira Backup and Recovery is now Generally Available (GA) in both SaaS and Software deployments, enabling organizations to protect and recover critical Jira data with enterprise-grade backup and recovery.

Customers can automatically back up Jira projects, issues, and metadata, and perform reliable restores to help maintain business continuity, operational resilience, and compliance across enterprise Jira environments.

This solution helps teams:

- Protect Jira data from accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious activity

- Meet security and compliance requirements with centralized, policy-driven backups

- Rapidly recover Jira data to minimize disruption to development, IT, and business workflows

#### Automated VM Provisioning for Domain Controller Promotion in Forest Recovery

As part of completing an enterprise Active Directory forest recovery, organizations must rebuild any remaining domain controllers that were not restored directly from backup. These servers are promoted from clean systems to fully reconstitute AD infrastructure across domains and locations.
Commvault now automatically provisions a fresh virtual machine from a trusted Windows Server ISO as part of the domain controller promotion process.
With automated VM provisioning, Commvault:

- Helps eliminate the need to pre-stage Windows Server images
- Enables promotion of domain controllers from clean infrastructure
- Helps streamline full forest reconstruction after a cyber event

The result is a simpler, safer, and more automated path to restoring complete AD infrastructure at enterprise scale.
This capability is available with the Active Directory Enterprise Edition license.

#### Expanded Forest Recovery Support on AWS EC2

In ransomware scenarios, recovering Active Directory to clean infrastructure is critical. Commvault is expanding out-of-place domain controller recovery to include AWS EC2, allowing organizations to rebuild AD forests on fresh cloud-based systems when on-premises servers are unavailable or compromised.
With support across Hyper-V, Azure, VMware, and now AWS, Commvault delivers greater flexibility and resilience for enterprise Active Directory recovery.
Available with the Active Directory Enterprise Edition license.

#### Protection for Microsoft Intune Device Compliance Policies and Configuration Profiles

Modern endpoint security depends on properly configured Intune policies. To help protect that foundation, we are adding backup and recovery support for Microsoft Intune device compliance policies and device configuration profiles.

Customers can now protect policy definitions, assignments, compliance scripts, and related configurations – enabling fast recovery from accidental changes, misconfigurations, or malicious tampering. This supports the continuity of compliance enforcement and helps reduce risk to endpoint security posture.

This capability is available with the Active Directory Standard Edition license.

### Storage Solutions

#### Streamlined HyperScale Edge Deployment for SaaS via Command Center

This release introduces HyperScale AutoDock for SaaS-based Commvault environments, enabling a simplified, secure, and guided deployment experience for HyperScale Edge systems through Command Center. The workflow minimizes manual input, defaults to streamlined network configuration, enforces console-level access validation, and provides centralized deployment monitoring with clear error remediation. Upon completion, systems are automatically hardened, fully patched, and validated for compliance with Commvault best practices.

### Workload Protection

#### Amazon DynamoDB: Auto-provision compute resources for protection operations

This feature adds the support for auto-provisioning of compute resources that dynamically adjusts compute capacity based on the size and growth of your protected databases, reducing manual configuration and enabling optimal performance and improved operational efficiency during backup, restore, and export operations—especially for large or rapidly scaling datasets. This enhancement helps simplify operations, lower management overhead, and keep your data protection workflows aligned with business-scale demands.

#### Amazon EC2: Enable automated cross-region and cross-account snapshot sharing

Automated cross-region and cross-account snapshot sharing simplifies data management by automatically replicating snapshots, eliminating manual steps, and allowing near seamless restoration in target locations. Customers enjoy increased operational efficiency, enhanced security through secure data transfer and integrity, while leveraging robust reporting for tracking activities.

#### Amazon S3: Auto-provisioning and auto scaling of access nodes

Amazon S3 now supports auto-provisioning and auto scaling of access nodes for backup and recovery.

#### Auto-provisioning and Auto Scaling available for Azure VMs

This feature enables auto-provisioning and auto scaling of access nodes for backup and recovery, efficiently handling varying demand without manual intervention. Customers experience improved resource management, cost efficiency, and enhanced scalability, enabling optimal performance during peak times. This automation significantly reduces operational complexity and helps establish services are always running at peak efficiency, enhancing user satisfaction.

#### Azure Lustre: Changelog integration for fast scanning

This feature integrates Azure Lustre changelog information, enabling users to run faster and more efficient file scans. It helps them complete backup jobs quickly, reduces the impact on system performance, and eliminates the need for time-consuming recursive scans on their high-performance file system.

#### Azure NetApp Files: Simplified onboarding

The updated onboarding experience for Azure NetApp Files streamlines setup and aligns the workflow with other protected workloads, delivering a consistent and simplified user experience.

#### Azure VMs: Bring your own Storage Gateway (SaaS)

The "Bring your own Storage Gateway" feature enables customers to use self-hosted VMs as data backup gateways and storage when backing up using Commvault Cloud (SaaS). This ensures the data remains within the customer's tenancy, enhancing security and reducing risks of data breaches, thereby improving peace of mind and control over sensitive information.

#### Google BigQuery: Backup and Restore of configurations with data

This enhancement enables administrators to back up and restore BigQuery external connection settings, routines, and IAM bindings—including table-level permissions and row-level access policies. Teams can easily move external data links, routines, and access controls across projects without manual reconfiguration, simplifying management and establishing consistent data governance.

#### HPE Morpheus: Use HPE Alletra Storage API for VM backups

HPE Alletra Storage API Integration offers simplified virtual machine backup and recovery on HPE Alletra for IT administrators. Customers benefit from native, snapshot-based data protection, addressing specific partner demands and enhancing their HPE ecosystem experience, establishing a robust, integrated, and unified VM backup solution with reduced operational risk.

#### NAS & File Systems: Independent snap scheduling and retention

This feature brings the ability to schedule and retain hardware snapshots separately from the external backup, delivering lower RPO/RTO and recovery flexibility:

- NetApp
- Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale
- Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- Nutanix Files
- Windows Volumes
- Linux Volumes

#### VM Replication: Preserve disk layout changes during failback across supported hypervisors and clouds

Commvault now preserves disk configuration changes made to replicated virtual machines during failback operations across supported hypervisor and cloud combinations.

## February 2026

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Expanded SaaS Support for File Server Workloads

We’ve expanded our SaaS workload coverage to include IBMi, OpenVMS, GPFS, and GlusterFS.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Add Backup and Restore actions from the Discovery page

Enable Backup and Restore actions directly from the discovery page’s resource actions section, simplifying data management through seamless access from a single, common interface.

#### Additional SaaS Backup Copies Across Regions and Cloud Platforms

This feature enables customers to create additional backup copies of their SaaS data across regions and cloud platforms. It supports disaster recovery, long-term retention, and compliance requirements—helping organizations safeguard critical data while meeting regulatory obligations with greater flexibility and less operational effort.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure Key Vault and Configurations with private link connectivity

Cloud Rewind now restores Azure Key Vaults and Private Link connectivity during disasters, re-establishing secure access to critical keys, secrets, and certificates so business applications can recover quickly without downtime‑driven manual intervention.

#### Command Center Navigation and Filter Enhancements

We are improving the Command Center experience with better navigation and new functionality that allows users to easily filter data, retain context, and manage pages. Users can apply flexible filters, swiftly access column options, and experience improved page load without refreshing, enabling a fast, smooth workflow and intuitive data organization.

#### Proactive Subscription Usage & Overage Alerts

Reduce surprise overages with proactive alerts as usage approaches or exceeds subscription limits. Timely notifications are delivered in the Command Center and via email— with instant access to usage insights and actionable guidance to keep spending under control.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### Managed Service Provider (MSP) Usage Report Availability in Global Command Center

Enhanced Usage Report extends Command Center with a unified, multi-tenant usage reporting experience purpose-built for MSPs. Aggregator and Direct MSPs can view, filter, and export usage data across multiple managed companies from a single interface—eliminating the need to switch contexts, navigate between rings, or rely on the MSP Portal. This enhancement simplifies day-to-day operations while laying the foundation for scalable, centralized reporting as new products are added.

### Workload Protection

#### Additional object storage support in SaaS

Commvault Cloud SaaS now supports these additional object storage types for feature parity with software:
Google Cloud Storage
Alibaba Cloud OSS
S3-Compatible
IBM Object Storage

#### Azure Table Storage rule based content selection

This feature lets you automatically select which Azure Table Storage tables are included in and excluded from backups based on rules or tags. It enables you to save time and reduce errors by managing backups efficiently, confirming your important tables are protected without the need for manual selection.

#### Cloud-Native Snapshot Management by Default for OCI Compute Instances

Cloud-native snapshot management by default delivers rapid data protection and recovery for OCI Compute instances, enabling precise point-in-time snapshot creation and retention. Customers benefit from minimized Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), ensuring critical data is quickly accessible after disruptions while improving reliability and operational efficiency.

#### IntelliSnap backup of SMB/CIFS shares using Linux access nodes

IntelliSnap backups of SMB/CIFS shares on NetApp, Isilon, or Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can now be performed using Linux access nodes eliminating the dependency on Windows machines.

#### Native Backup and Recovery for Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines

Integration of Apache CloudStack virtual machines with Commvault Cloud enhances backup and recovery through native hypervisor awareness. This enables customers to protect Apache CloudStack VMs with full backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities, reducing reliance on workarounds and simplifying operational workflows.

#### Nutanix AHV VM Discovery and Protection Managed Through Prism Central

Commvault now supports managing Nutanix AHV virtual machine protection through Prism Central instead of Prism Element, unlocking access to Prism Central–only capabilities such as Categories and vTPM awareness. This provides centralized, scalable management and consistent protection across AHV environments.

#### Simplified Azure-Native Database Recovery with Unified Backup Visibility

This feature discovers Azure-native automated database backups—including log backups and long-term retention (LTR) backups—and exposes them directly in the Commvault Command Center. Customers gain a single, unified interface to restore databases from either Azure-native automated backups or Commvault backups.

#### Simplified Nutanix AHV VM Protection Using Prism Central Categories

Automatic backup group creation and management for Nutanix AHV virtual machines leverages Prism Central Categories to simplify protection policy updates. New and updated VMs are protected faster with less manual effort, ensuring alignment with organizational data protection requirements.

## January 2026

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Automatic Intellisnap Enablement for GCP VMs

Commvault Intellisnap now automatically enables GCP VMs, delivering faster, more efficient backups with no additional configuration. Customers benefit from reduced backup windows and faster recovery, while streamlined operations reduce complexity and maintenance—providing a modern, simplified backup experience.

#### Automatic discovery for Azure SQL instances

This feature simplifies assigning backup plans to Azure SQL resources by auto-configuring essential settings and removing unnecessary steps. It helps enable faster, more confident protection with less effort. This helps save time, reduce confusion, and establish efficient database protection with minimal effort.

#### Automatic discovery of Azure MySQL

This feature simplifies plan assignment for Azure MySQL resources by automatically configuring settings and hiding unnecessary steps. It lets users quickly choose their databases and assign plans without having to enter extra information. This helps them save time and make it easier to protect their data in the cloud.

#### Automatic discovery of Azure PostgreSQL instances

This feature simplifies assigning backup plans to Azure PostgreSQL databases by eliminating unnecessary steps and showing only relevant options. Setup is faster and clearer, enabling efficient database protection with fewer clicks.

#### Windows 1-Touch: Minisetup Removal and Post-Boot Script Support

Minisetup Option Removed
The Minisetup option has been removed from 1-Touch recovery; previously, it always needed to be disabled.
Automatic Post-Boot Script Execution
Users can now include custom scripts in a designated folder on the WinPE ISO. These scripts will automatically execute upon system boot after a 1-Touch recovery, enabling greater automation and customization.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Cloud Rewind: Automatically rebuild Azure Firewall deployment and configuration

Cloud Rewind now automatically rebuilds Azure Firewall deployments and configurations, enabling faster recovery from outages or security incidents while preserving critical network protections.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure SQL Server Configuration using Azure AD Authentication

Cloud Rewind automatically rebuilds Azure SQL Servers with Azure AD authentication and essential configurations such as Private Endpoint connectivity, allowing Commvault Cloud to restore SQL Server data into a secure, fully operational production environment with minimal downtime

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure Storage Account Configuration with Private Endpoint Configuration

Cloud Rewind now rebuilds Azure Storage Account configuration and Private Endpoint connectivity, enabling Commvault Cloud Data Protection to restore data into a production-ready environment.

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild Azure VNET peering configuration

Cloud Rewind now automatically rebuilds Azure VNet peering connections during recovery, ensuring restored networks are secure, connected, and ready for production.

#### Improved restore performance and reliability optimizations

This enhancement improves data restore speed and reliability by optimizing how backups reference old data over time. It enables users to recover critical information faster and with greater confidence, helping them maintain consistent performance, reduce storage risks, and protect valuable business data efficiently.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### API: Import file hashes and YARA rules to be used for detecting malware in backups and perform HASH only based scanning using backup index

Commvault now provides APIs to import malicious file-hash feeds and YARA rules into Threat Detection Plans and to execute hash-based malware hunts by querying the backup index (no restore required), enabling rapid, intelligence-driven detection across historical backup content, faster updates to detection logic, and reduced time to results for emerging threats.

#### Arlie Insights: AI-generated overview and recommendations for Threat Detection

This feature gives users AI-enabled, detailed malware threat overviews and actionable recommendations on each page of the Threat Detection dashboard, enabling administrators to quickly understand each threat and respond confidently. It helps users investigate security events more thoroughly, assess and understand the risk and impact, and make fast, informed decisions about containment, recovery, and further action.

#### Automated cleanroom deployment in AWS

This feature automatically sets up on-demand secure cleanroom with isolated network settings in AWS before recovering resources into it. This helps customers enable efficient recovery while maintaining isolation, making data recovery simpler.

#### Execute response actions directly from the Threat Scan Dashboard

This capability enables administrators to rapidly orchestrate response actions directly from the Threat Scan dashboard, including marking assets as safe, pausing data deletion, and performing in-place, out-of-place, or cleanroom-directed restores for clean recovery or forensic analysis. This is important because it shortens response and recovery times, and helps enable compromised data to be safely recovered, investigated, or remediated.

#### Express configuration based Azure Application deployment in Cleanroom Recovery Software

This feature streamlines the setup of a cleanroom by allowing users to authenticate and quickly create and deploy the Azure application via single sign-on into Microsoft Azure. It enables faster onboarding of Cleanroom recovery.

#### Improved Calendar View with visual indicators of clean and infected recovery points

The Recovery Calendar View now overlays Threat Indicator Insights with clear visual status indicators to differentiate clean versus potentially infected (malware/encryption) recovery points, providing per recovery point threat breakdowns so operators can rapidly exclude compromised restore candidates, make evidence-based selections, reduce RTO, and prevent reinfection during recovery.

#### Manage and configure plans for Threat Scan operations across multiple workloads

Configure and manage Threat Scan operations and capabilities across VMs, cloud objects, and file systems within a single, centralized plan. This capability allows users to schedule and run Threat Scan on multiple virtual machines and data sources simultaneously, streamlining scan management and ensuring consistent, recurring protection at scale without additional manual overhead.

#### Multi-tenant Cleanroom Recovery support

The multi-tenant support in Cleanroom Recovery empowers tenant admins to create individual "recoverymanager" users per company within a CommCell environment. This facilitates self-service cyber recovery tests by allowing end users to recover their applications into an isolated cleanroom securely.

#### New Threat Scan User Experience and Dashboard

The new Threat Scan Dashboard provides a consolidated view for rapid threat triage by showing Threat Scan coverage and job status, flagging assets excluded from scan plans and resulting protection gaps, and summarizing scan outcomes (clean files, quarantined malware, quarantined encrypted files) to validate scan effectiveness and recovery objectives. They also add resource-level historical telemetry across anomalies, malware, encryption, and partner signals to spot trends and high-risk patterns, assign signal-driven asset risk levels to prioritize investigations, and enhance response with asset categorization, misconfiguration indicators, geo-mapping, detailed threat drilldowns, and integrated remediation actions to strengthen security posture and recovery confidence.

#### New Threat Scan architecture supports schedule based scanning for virtual machines and cloud objects, and files

Threat Scan now supports a hypervisor-less, schedule-based scanning architecture that eliminates the need to recover virtual machines to a hypervisor for scanning. This avoids datastore performance impact while enabling recurring malware scans across backed-up VM workloads (any supported hypervisor) and supported object storage backups (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob), improving scan frequency, flexibility, and proactive clean-recovery readiness.

#### Recover resources into a pre-created cleanroom directly from Threat Indicators dashboard

This feature allows customers to initiate a Cleanroom recovery directly from the Threat Scan dashboard, streamlining the response process when potential threats are identified. By providing a fast and intuitive way to restore anomalous resources into a secure, isolated cleanroom environment, it helps enable users to investigate issues and validate recovery status with greater ease and confidence.

#### Runbook experience for Cleanroom Recovery

This feature allows users to create recovery groups that consolidate critical assets and to design multiple runbooks tailored for recovery scenarios. It provides a clear, structured view of each granular recovery step, giving users the flexibility to modify the workflow, skip nonessential actions when appropriate, and set recovery ordering of resources. By enabling more controlled and efficient orchestration of the recovery process, this capability helps teams streamline their cyber-recovery operations and confirm that their most important systems remain resilient.

#### Synthetic Recovery for Files and Objects

Synthetic Recovery for Files and Objects composes a clean recovery point by assembling the most recent uncorrupted file versions across your backup estate automatically. This excludes encrypted and malware data before restore, enabling faster, cleaner, and more verifiable cyber recoveries while minimizing rollback and reinfection risk. Synthetic Recovery is accessible as a recovery option from the Threat Detection Dashboard.

#### Threat Scan of VMs in Cleanroom for SaaS

Threat Scan inside a Cleanroom automatically detects threats during VM recovery into AWS or Azure Cleanroom. It streamlines the process of conducting malware analysis inside the isolated cleanroom. Users can view detailed results in the control plane, enhancing decision-making. With the integrated recovery flow, we can confirm secure recovery, enabling easy threat management and fortifying data security by streamlining operational processes.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### Incident Response with Automated HaloPSA Ticket Creation from Commvault

This enhancement enables MSPs to automatically generate HaloPSA Service Desk tickets from Commvault alerts using configurable, alert-driven workflows. Commvault events can be mapped to HaloPSA ticket attributes such as priority and status, allowing service desk teams to process backup and recovery incidents through standardized operational workflows.
The integration leverages Commvault’s established PSA integration framework to provide consistent configuration, behavior, and lifecycle management across supported PSA platforms. This allows MSPs to reduce manual intervention, improve alert visibility within the service desk, and align data protection events with existing ITSM processes.

### Workload Protection

#### Enhanced Backup and Restore Experience in VCD Plugin

This feature lets users restore individual files and view detailed backup job information directly in the VCD plugin. It enables administrators to quickly recover files and monitor backup jobs in one place, saving time and simplifying management without switching between different interfaces. It helps simplify everyday recovery operations and improve operational efficiency.

#### For Google Cloud, Enable Customer Managed Encryption Keys and Service Account Configuration During Instance Replication

Google Cloud Platform administrators can easily protect replicated instances by enabling Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) and associating service accounts during configuration. This feature enables data protection with predefined encryption and identity controls, helping simplify compliance requirements without requiring adjustments post-replication. Enhanced validation and automation help improve efficiency and security assurance.

#### Incremental backup support for Microsoft SQL Server databases

The incremental backup support for Microsoft SQL Server allows SQL DBAs to improve backup performance and meet backup SLAs with faster backups for large databases. This feature captures only the changes between backups, enabling quick and efficient backup processes.

#### Modernized vSphere Client Integration with Remote Plugin Framework

Commvault has introduced a new remote plugin framework for the vSphere Client, modernizing the integration to support the latest vSphere versions. This update improves protection, reduces the need for local plugin deployments, and helps simplify upgrades through centralized hosting—delivering a more scalable and reliable connection between vSphere and Commvault services.

## December 2025

### Artificial Intelligence

#### Arlie in Documentation Portal

This feature extends Arlie, Commvault’s unified AI co-pilot, to the documentation portal. Arlie can now answer questions, summarize technical content, and guide users to relevant resources directly within product documentation. This brings the same intelligent assistance available across Commvault Cloud—troubleshooting, recommendations, and contextual insights—into the documentation experience, helping users find trusted information faster and with less effort.

#### Support Docusign with Unified Vault

Docusign has now been validated for protection with Unified Vault, including a backup tool available in the Commvault software store.

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Unified onboarding wizard for File Servers

The enhanced file storage setup offers a simplified self-service onboarding for File Servers in software and SaaS.

#### Unified the plan changes across Software and SaaS and add support for Snapshot schedule

This feature simplifies and unifies Plan pages, letting users easily set up snapshot backups with automatic region assignment. It makes scheduling and retaining snapshots straightforward and consistent across products. It helps users confidently manage their data protection, save time and reduce errors during backup setup.

#### Workloads: Amazon EC2: Bundled Storage

Amazon EC2's bundled storage integrates with your instances, offering enhanced data durability and optimized performance. Customers benefit by easily scaling storage as their workloads grow, establishing data safety without additional configurations. This integration simplifies management, enabling focus on business objectives and innovation without compromising on storage reliability or scalability.

#### Workloads: GCP VMs: Unified SaaS and SW Onboarding

The new onboarding process streamlines hypervisor configuration in Commvault, integrating SaaS and software setup into one easy step. By easily bundling storage, users save time and reduce errors. This efficiency enhances the overall experience, offering faster, consistent onboarding that improves satisfaction and speeds up deployment across the Commvault ecosystem.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Commvault Cloud - Dedicated Tenant

Dedicated Tenant provides complete data, compute, and control plane isolation of customer tenants while maintaining the same modern SaaS management experience as our multi-tenant service. This offering enables customers with advanced regulatory, residency, or operational requirements to achieve cloud-scale cyber resilience on their terms—secure, compliant, and fully managed by Commvault.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Commvault Cloud Integration with CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM

Commvault Cloud integrates with CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM to deliver rich security telemetry including anomaly detection, malware identification, encryption activity, and sensitive data exposure directly from Commvault to the SIEM. This integration enhances SOC workflows by providing actionable insights inside the tools used by SOC Analysts that improve detection fidelity, streamline investigations, and strengthen threat response effectiveness.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### Endpoint In-Place Legal Hold

Tenant and MSP administrators can utilize the Legal Hold feature to prevent the deletion or aging of laptop backup data for compliance requirements. When Legal Hold is enabled, retention is not applied to the laptop data.

#### Microsoft 365 Exchange Restore to Blob

This feature enables users to restore their Exchange data directly to their own cloud storage, including Azure or other blob options. It provides customers with greater control, flexibility, and convenience by allowing them to manage data location while still offering simple download options using their native cloud tools.

#### Microsoft 365 OneDrive Restore to Blob

This feature enables users to restore their OneDrive data directly to their own cloud storage, including Azure or other blob options. It provides customers with greater control, flexibility, and convenience by allowing them to manage data location while still offering simple download options using their native cloud tools.

#### Microsoft 365 Teams Restore to Blob

This feature enables users to restore their Teams data directly to their own cloud storage, including Azure or other blob options. It provides customers with greater control, flexibility, and convenience by allowing them to manage data location while still offering simple download options using their native cloud tools.

### Storage Solutions

#### Air Gap Protect Archive storage tier

The Air Gap Protect Archive storage tier introduces a low-cost, long-term retention option designed for compliance, regulatory, and archival workloads requiring 180 days or more of data retention. By leveraging Commvault’s integrated storage tiering and air-gapped architecture, it securely isolates archived data while maintaining efficient indexing and recoverability. This new tier delivers enhanced ransomware resilience, predictable recovery performance, and optimized cloud economics, providing customers with a secure, durable, and compliant data protection solution.

### Workload Protection

#### Auto-Discover and simplify protection for Amazon Aurora and RDS

This feature auto-discovers Amazon Aurora and RDS database, lets users filter them by keys such as tags, account or region, and assigns them to protection plans, enabling smooth onboarding and protection of Amazon RDS.

#### Auto-Discover and simplify protection for Amazon DynamoDB

This feature auto-discovers Amazon DynamoDB tables, lets users filter them by keys such as tags, account or region, and assigns them to protection plans, enabling smooth onboarding and protection of Amazon DynamoDB.

#### Enable NVMe Disk Controller Support for Azure VM Restores and HotAdd Operations

Enable NVMe disk controller support to enable faster, more efficient Azure VM restores and HotAdd operations. Users enjoy consistent high performance by maintaining NVMe configurations during backups, restores, and live workflows. Automatically choose suitable VM sizing and receive detailed logging to confirm NVMe configurations are upheld or appropriately adjusted.

#### File system automatic stream changes

This feature automatically calculates stream settings for file systems both during backup and restore. The calculation is based on thenumber and size of files in the job. For backup this is an enhanced calculation, for restore this is a new feature.

- File Servers will run with between 1 and 10 streams
- File Shares will run with between 1 and 25 streams per access node
- Cloud File Shares will run with between 1 and 50 streams per access node

#### Nutanix AHV Live Mount

This feature lets customers quickly recover or access virtual machines directly from backup storage. It enables rapid access to their data during unexpected downtime or emergencies. It helps them minimize disruption to business operations and reduces the time needed to restore critical systems.

#### Object storage automatic allocation of streams for backup.

With this update, the number of concurrent streams the backup will use is calculated after the scan has generated the list of objects to be protected.
This will be implemented for all object storage backups.

#### Onboarding wizard for S3 Compatible storage

With this update, you can now onboard S3-compatible storage separately to Amazon S3 storage, confirming Amazon specific settings and features are not applied to S3-compatible workloads.

#### Repave or attach a disk from a backed-up VM to a new Hyper-V VM

This feature lets users quickly attach or restore disks from backed-up VMs to new Hyper-V virtual machines. It enables fast recovery and simplified data migration, minimizing downtime. Users benefit from flexible restore options, saving time during disaster recovery, VM migrations, or upgrades while establishing efficient access to critical data.

#### Restrict cross-region backups for GCP Compute

The "Restrict cross-region backups" feature allows cloud backup admins to confine GCP VM backups to the same region as the VM itself. This feature minimizes data transfer costs, establish compliance with data residency laws, and supports predictable backup operations, offering enhanced cost management and legal compliance for multi-region estates.

#### Support for Azure NVMe disks on Azure VMs

With upcoming NVMe-controller and disk support for Azure VM backups, Commvault will be able to protect even your highest-performance Azure workloads with greater efficiency and flexibility. Organizations running VMs on blazing-fast NVMe storage can easily back them up with the same reliability, automation, and recovery consistency they expect from Commvault. No redesigns, no special handling, no slowdown. This enhancement allows customers to leverage next-gen Azure VM storage to safeguard mission-critical applications at full speed, keeping protection aligned with performance as environments scale.

#### Support for Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) for GCP BigQuery

This feature allows users to restore BigQuery tables to a specific point in time, enabling recovery from accidental deletions, schema changes, or data corruption. Users can choose when to recover data, establishing consistency and completeness. This enhancement provides greater flexibility, minimizes potential data loss, and improves overall data resilience for GCP BigQuery workloads.

#### VMWare Agentless File Restore via CyberArk One-Time Credentials

The VMWare Agentless File Restore using CyberArk One-Time Credentials securely restores files to vSphere VMs without storing impersonation credentials. This feature aligns with stringent security protocols, minimizing the risk of secret sprawl and helping enhance compliance by providing auditable, just-in-time access for enterprise backup administrators.

## November 2025

### Artificial Intelligence

#### Support Monday.com with Unified Data Vault

Monday.com has now been validated for protection with Unified Data Vault including a backup tool available in the Commvault software store.

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Unified Onboarding Wizard for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

This feature introduces a unified, streamlined wizard for configuring and protecting Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP environments. The common workflow simplifies the onboarding process for both self-managed (software) and SaaS-managed deployments, improving operational efficiency and significantly reducing the time and complexity required for initial setup.

#### Workloads: Amazon EC2; Independent Snapshot Management

Amazon EC2 customers using Commvault benefit from Intellisnap, enabled by default, simplifying backup and recovery processes. This efficient, snapshot-based system shortens backup times and recovery, reducing complexity and maintenance. The setup helps establish a consistent experience without additional configuration, offering speed and reliability, enhancing customer satisfaction and productivity.

#### Workloads: Azure VMs: Auto Discovery Using Tags and Groups

This feature automatically finds and lists all Azure resources and shows their protection status. It enables users to quickly spot unprotected assets and organize them into groups for easy management. It helps protect all resources and simplifies policy-driven data protection for your entire cloud environment.

#### Workloads: Azure VMs: Independent Snapshot Management

Independent Snapshot Management enables automatic activation of Intellisnap for Azure VMs during onboarding. This provides faster and more efficient backups and recovery without user intervention. It helps simplify processes, enhance performance, and align with native Azure practices, offering users reliable, time-saving backup solutions with minimal setup effort.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Alert upon a Command Center or API login from a new or unknown device

Commvault now alerts users and administrators when a user logs in from a new device for the first time through the Command Center or API. These alerts provide critical information to help you identify unauthorized access attempts, including the user's name, device details, IP address, login time, and location (if available). Notifications are sent via standard channels, such as email. In multi-tenant environments, each tenant receives alerts specific to their users, while master administrators can view all login alerts across tenants from a centralized interface.

#### Server Group Configuration Page Reorganization

The Server Group Configuration page has been reorganized to improve usability and streamline configuration workflows. Configuration options are now grouped more logically, making it easier to locate and manage settings. This gives users a more intuitive experience without altering existing functionality or configuration behavior.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Secure CockroachDB and YugabyteDB credentials in Commvault’s credential vault

Our credential vault feature for CockroachDB and YDB enables secure storage of database credentials within a Commvault-managed vault. This simplifies database configuration and password management while enhancing security, and establishing easy accessibility for users. With improved security posture, it effectively simplifies management and boosts overall data protection for customers.

### Storage Solutions

#### AGP - Commercial and GovCloud Regions on the same Commcell

Air Gap Protect (AGP) now supports simultaneous use of both Commercial and GovCloud storage regions within a single CommServe environment. This enhancement unifies configuration, licensing, and management for mixed-cloud deployments—enabling organizations to seamlessly protect and manage data across both environments from a single, consistent platform. By leveraging a shared DB instance for metadata and operations, AGP delivers streamlined interoperability, enhanced security, and simplified administration for diverse cloud storage requirements.

#### Air Gap Protect for AWS GovCloud (US)

Air Gap Protect (AGP) for AWS GovCloud (US) offers an enhanced security solution for AWS customers by supporting separate region(s) for data protection. With GovCloud support, customers can obtain the highest levels of data security within AWS GovCloud (US), allowing for peace of mind and compliance with industry regulations.
GovCloud enforces data residency and access controls (for example, U.S. citizen-only personnel), making it essential for protecting classified and mission-critical workloads. Air Gap Protect in GovCloud regions enhances those protections by offering immutable, isolated data copies.

#### Air Gap Protect for Google Cloud

The Air Gap Protect feature for Google Cloud offers Commvault Cloud customers the ability to secure their data through isolated data copies for Frequent Access and Infrequent Access tiers. With an immutable design and zero-trust access controls, users can enable data integrity while instant scalability simplifies management.

### Workload Protection

#### Azure Blob and ADLS Gen2 inventory report scanning.

Azure BLOB and ADLS Gen2 scan time is significantly reduced on large storage accounts by using inventory reports to list objects. This applies to newly onboarded Azure Blob and ADLS Gen 2 accounts.

#### Azure and GCP PaaS Database Protection Enhancements

Azure and GCP PaaS Database Protection Enhancements

Improved Load Distribution for Azure PostgreSQL DB Backups

Azure PostgreSQL backups now automatically distribute jobs across all configured Access Nodes, helping balance workload utilization and faster backup performance. This enhancement delivers a consistent experience across workloads and improves scalability for large environments.

Enhanced Reliability for PostgreSQL Backups Using Token-Based Authentication

This release improves token handling to establish uninterrupted backup and restore operations, even during long-running jobs for Azure, AWS, and GCP PaaS Postgres.

Backup Gateway Group Selection in Azure DB PaaS Configuration Wizards

You can now choose a Backup Gateway Group directly while configuring Azure PaaS workloads, streamlining setup and ensuring consistent gateway usage across SQL, Managed Instance, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Managed Identity Support for Azure SQL Managed Instance Storage Connections

Azure SQL Managed Instance backups can now use Managed Identities for connecting to storage, helping enhance security posture by removing the need to manage or rotate credentials manually.

GCP Service Account Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL

MySQL and PostgreSQL backups on Google Cloud can now authenticate using GCP Service Accounts, offering improved protection and policy-compliant method for cloud database protection.

#### Enable Backup and Restore of Free-Form Tags for OCI Instances and Volumes

Enable Backup and Restore of Free-Form Tags for OCI establishes continuity by preserving operational metadata during Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance and volume recoveries. IT administrators can easily apply tags again without having to enter them manually. This saves time and keeps things the same after backups are restored.

#### Enable Commvault VSA compatibility with Proxmox VE 9

Commvault VSA's native support for Proxmox VE 9 allows streamlined backup and recovery operations. Customers efficiently protect their virtual environments without manual interventions or third-party tools, enhancing reliability and convenience. Full system integration streamlines processes, establishing the highest levels of security and functionality across all Proxmox VE platforms.

#### Permissions change for Azure Blob and ADLS Gen2

The following additional permissions are required to configure and read the inventory report configuration; this is needed to automatically configure inventory reports on very large storage accounts to optimise backup strategy.

- Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/inventoryPolicies/read
- Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/inventoryPolicies/write

#### Proxmox VE Snapshot Support for Thick LVM VMs via QEMU APIs

Proxmox VE snapshot support for thick LVM VMs via QEMU APIs enables system administrators to efficiently create consistent snapshots for VM backups. This functionality helps simplify operations and reliable backup/restore processes, enhancing overall system reliability and helping maintain continuity without VM disruption, thus meeting critical IT needs efficiently.

#### VM Guest File Restore with Cold Storage Recall

The VM Guest File Restore with Cold Storage Recall feature enables backup operators and system administrators to recover archived VM files from cloud cold storage easily. By staging data in primary storage and allowing user control over the recall process, it provides a streamlined experience, enhancing recovery reliability and providing progress tracking, thus minimizing disruptions.

#### Validate compatibility of VMware vSphere 9 with Commvault Virtual Server Agent

Added support for VMware vSphere 9 in Commvault Virtual Server Agent (VSA), enabling full backup and recovery operations with the latest vSphere release.

## October 2025

### Artificial Intelligence

#### Arlie on SaaS

Arlie’s full set of intelligent assistance capabilities is now available in the Commvault SaaS platform, bringing feature parity with software deployments. SaaS users can now access guided help, proactive insights, automation support, and log analysis directly within their console. This capability is being rolled out in phases — contact your Commvault representative if you’d like early access.

#### Arlie on SaaS is now integrated with Commvault support

Arlie, your AI assistant, now offers direct escalation to our support team within the SaaS experience. If Arlie can't resolve your issue, you can transition smoothly to a live agent without losing context — the full conversation and diagnostic details are automatically preserved. Plus, you can now view and create support tickets directly through the Arlie chat interface, delivering a truly seamless end-to-end support experience. This feature is being rolled out in phases — contact your Commvault representative if you’d like early access.

#### Commvault MCP Server

We’re introducing Commvault MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server — an early adopter preview that enables natural, interactive management of your Commvault environment via your tool of choice.
Admins can now use simple chat-style requests to:

- Schedule backup jobs.
- Automate job reviews and identify recurring failure patterns.
- Access key SLA, security, and storage insights without dashboard hopping.

This preview marks the next step toward agentic, conversational operations in Commvault.

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Credential Vault entries in the CommCell Console

To consolidate user credential management in the CommCell Console, the traditional username and password fields have been replaced with Credential Vault entries.

Any previously saved usernames and passwords have been automatically migrated to Credential Vault and applied in place of the old login fields.

To update or manage these credentials, go to the Command Center and navigate to:
Manage > Security > Credential Vault.

#### Unified self-service onboarding for IaaS databases

Commvault’s self-service onboarding makes it easier to configure protection for databases installed on physical servers, virtual machines, or IaaS workloads in the cloud. This unified process delivers a more intuitive and consistent setup experience, so users can manage their database configurations and improve operational efficiency.

Use this simplified process to easily onboard the following databases:

- Informix
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Oracle RAC
- PostgreSQL
- SAP HANA
- SAP MaxDB
- SAP Oracle
- SQL Server
- Sybase

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Command Center support for schedule & schedule policies

This feature introduces Command Center support for scheduling and schedule policies for backup, restore, and media management operations, such as data aging and auxiliary copy, simplifying management tasks and offering enhanced customization and flexibility. This is particularly beneficial for complex or large-scale environments, allowing for more precise control and efficient processes.

#### Job management enhancements

Enhancements to job management allow users to change the number of retries and job type priority. The resubmit job option for full VM restore has been optimized for greater efficiency. Now, users can add comments to any job type and resubmit restore jobs. Additionally, there is improved visibility of the MediaAgent in the job details, as well as more information in the auxiliary copy job details page. Finally, all job columns in Java are now available in the Command Center. These enhancements provide users with greater control and visibility over job management processes.

#### Multi-region resource group protection

Customers can now create cloud assemblies to protect Azure resource groups that include resources from multiple regions.

#### Storage Pool compression support in Command Center

Support for configuring compression at the Storage Pool level has been introduced in the Commvault Command Center. This enhancement allows compression to be enabled or disabled directly within the storage pool configuration interface, streamlining storage management workflows.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Ability to change the recovery target of an existing cleanroom recovery group

This feature enables customers to modify the cleanroom recovery target for existing recovery groups, providing enhanced flexibility. It empowers users to adjust their cyber-recovery strategies in response to evolving needs, deliver continuity and improve business resilience without needing to recreate recovery groups.

#### Cleanroom control plane recovery experience improvements

The control plane recovery feature allows customers to quickly recover from system failures or crashes, resulting in minimal disruption to their operations. This feature simplifies the process of executing a cleanroom control plane recovery by providing a simple guided wizard experience ultimately enhancing the overall user experience.

#### Consolidate application credential storage to Credential Vault

Commvault’s Credential Vault securely stores application credentials, which have now been expanded to include additional user login information used for SMTP, webhook, identity servers, and network paths. Administrators can also integrate with third-party vaults to simplify credential management while enabling compliance with organizational security standards.

#### Threat Scanning in AWS Cleanroom for Software

Threat Scanning in AWS Cleanroom enhances recovery security using automation to detect and report anomalies in recovered resources. Customers can easily opt-in malware scanning during recovery and access threat information. This seamless integration offers peace of mind by providing comprehensive threat scanning, facilitating informed decisions, and streamlining secure recovery operations.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### Introducing Top-Level Navigation for "Companies" in Command Center

We’ve made it easier for users, especially MSPs managing multiple customer environments, to access the Companies section. It is now available directly from the top-level navigation in Command Center, eliminating the need to go through Manage > Companies. This update simplifies navigation and improves usability without changing any functionality.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### New in Forest Recovery: Recover AD to Clean VM for ransomware isolation

Recover AD to clean VM is a secure recovery option that restores only the Active Directory database to a newly provisioned virtual machine built from a clean ISO image. By eliminating reliance on existing infrastructure, this approach helps make sure that the restored domain controller is free from ransomware or other compromise. Administrators don’t need to supply a VM, and the underlying operating system is built fresh—aligning with clean OS recovery practices increasingly adopted across the industry. This method is essential for safely restoring Active Directory following a cyberattack.

### Workload Protection

#### Backup Support for Azure SQL Managed Instance Databases Encrypted with Service-Managed Keys

Commvault now supports backups of Azure SQL Managed Instance databases encrypted with service-managed keys. This feature enables DBAs to efficiently back up databases up to 2TB in size using the Microsoft SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework, without switching to customer-managed keys. This reduces key management overhead, enhances data protection, and enables streamlined database management with less administrative effort.To use this feature, customers must configure an additional setting in the product. Please refer to the documentation for more information.

#### Failback for intelliSnap based primary copies for public cloud hypervisors

This feature mitigates the gap of supporting failback operation for scenarios where primary backup copy is using IntelliSnap based backups with a streaming backup copy in the DR region. Customers can now use the steaming backup copy to failover and failback during a disaster event even if the primary copy is using IntelliSnap backups. This is supported across all major public cloud hypervisors, including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. It delivers business continuity, minimizes downtime and data loss during unexpected disruptions, and enhances operational resilience for cloud infrastructure.

#### FedRAMP High certification for Air Gap Protect for AWS GovCloud (US)

The FedRAMP High certification for Air Gap Protect for AWS GovCloud (US) by Commvault brings heightened data protection for US government customers, enabling data security compliance and peace of mind. This certification enables access to a safeguarded, cloud storage solution in alignment with stringent federal regulations.

#### GCP boot driver injection for Replication

GCP Boot Driver Injection streamlines your replication and failover of on-premises VMs to Google Cloud. Commvault Cloud automatically injects the required Google Compute Engine drivers, eliminating the need for manual driver installation on source instances. This feature simplifies Auto Recovery and disaster recovery testing, saving significant time and effort, especially for large-scale migrations.

#### Incremental backup support for Google Cloud BigQuery

The addition of incremental backup support for Google Cloud BigQuery improves the backup SLAs and enhances storage efficiency. This feature enables the backup change history to capture the data changes on the BigQuery tables and store only changed data.

#### Object storage flat mode scan

Flat mode scan will be enabled by default for all new and existing object storage backups.
This change reduces API calls, cutting costs and reducing scan time.
Compatible with Azure Blob, ADLS Gen2, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 General Purpose Buckets, OCI Object Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Alibaba Cloud OSS, and fully S3-compatible services.

#### VMware General Updates

VMware's latest updates simplify data protection for users by introducing easy access node additions and a more user-friendly onboarding wizard. This streamlining enhances consistency across software and SaaS applications, making data protection processes intuitive and efficient, thereby increasing overall customer satisfaction and operational ease.

#### Virtual machines continuous replication via HPE Zerto

To provide customers new zero RPO, we have partnered with and integrated HPE Zerto with Commvault cloud. This confirms that your data is replicated in real-time to a secondary site which can be used during a disaster event providing minimal data loss and downtime.

## September 2025

### Commvault Cloud Data Protection

#### Ability to Modify VM Network Tags During Restore/Replication

You can seamlessly review, add, or remove network tags during restore or replication without disrupting VM operations. Modifying network tags establishes accurate configuration and helps prevent firewall rule conflicts. User input validation, combined with comprehensive logging, enhances the accuracy and traceability of restored VMs.

#### Automated Google Cloud onboarding

The automated Google Cloud onboarding streamlines your Commvault integration, leveraging Google’s best practice automation tools. It efficiently creates custom roles, manages credentials, and deploys access nodes with ease. This simplifies the setup process, saving you time and establishes protection for your Google Cloud projects with Commvault.

#### Driver Inject for GCP VMs

Driver Inject for GCP VMs enables automated disaster recovery by deploying an injector node when no local access node is present. It attaches disks, injects drivers, and decommissions itself, eliminating manual effort. This feature saves time and reduces human error, enhancing reliability during critical recovery operations for customers.

#### End of Support for IBM i 6.1

Commvault version 11.36 will be the last supported version for IBM i 6.1. Customers can still use this agent per the obsolescence policy.

#### File System TrueUp Optimization

TrueUp is a process that compares the data backed up with the expected data, enabling data integrity and accuracy. However, it should only be run when needed to minimize any impact on system performance and resources and to avoid potential disruptions during the backup process.

Commvault has optimized the TrueUp process for the following iDAs:

- Windows and Unix File Systems
- NAS CIFS and NFS
- Changelist CIFS, NFS streaming (NetApp, Isilon, Nutanix, Qumulo)
- IntelliSnap backup copy CIFS, NFS, and changelist iDAs.

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Cloud Rewind: Rebuild AWS Cloud Configurations Across Regions and Accounts

Customers can seamlessly rebuild their cloud-native infrastructure and configurations across AWS accounts while using Commvault Cloud for data recovery.

#### Restore File System Schedules in Command Center

Commvault users can use the Command Center to easily schedule and manage file system restores. This saves time, simplifies the restoration process, and improves productivity and user experience.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Automate agent injection and SAN policy for Azure Cleanroom

This allows for the seamless automation of the necessary steps for a successful cleanroom recovery into the target environment. It streamlines tasks such as Azure agent injection, enabling integration services for Linux servers, and activating SAN policies for Windows VMs. This feature simplifies the recovery process for customers, saving time and reducing manual errors.

#### Automate creation of Cleanroom - Express configuration

Express configuration enables automated creation of Cleanrooms for Azure within SaaS environments. Utilizing single sign-on authentication for Azure, you can swiftly deploy Cleanroom infrastructure. This feature streamlines the process, saving time and allowing you to concentrate on core tasks.

#### Automate creation of Cleanroom Recovery - Azure infrastructure

Commvault will automate the creation of resource groups, establish a storage account, and configure networking components like virtual networks and security groups for a Cleanroom environment. This is part of the recovery orchestration process designed to reduce manual intervention.

#### Automated recovery of SUSE Linux VMs into Azure Cleanroom

Automating the process of injecting drivers and agents into SUSE VMs in Azure Cleanroom, simplifies and streamlines cleanroom recoveries. This feature automatically handles key pre-requisites like driver injection and IP conversion for successful recoveries.

#### Protect Sybase database credentials in Commvault’s credential vault

Store and protect Sybase database and server credentials in a centralized vault. This approach simplifies database configuration, improves password management, and increases accessibility while strengthening overall security posture.

#### Secure Informix database credentials in Commvault’s credential vault

Securely store and manage Informix database and server credentials in a centralized vault. This approach simplifies database configuration, improves password management, and increases accessibility while strengthening overall security posture.

#### Simplified the Process for Auto-Scale Configuration of Access Nodes

The Auto-Scale configuration of access nodes has been revamped to automatically handle the setup and management of necessary components for scaling out infrastructure nodes. This lets you focus on core business activities without worrying about infrastructure scaling and availability.

#### Threat Intelligence: Scan Nutanix AHV VMs with Threat Scan on restore operations

This feature allows backup admins to scan Nutanix AHV VMs during restore operations to detect malware threats. This provides users with the ability to identify and isolate infected VM backups, take necessary actions from the Threat Indicator dashboard, and validate that the restored VMs are clean before bringing them back into production.

#### Threat Intelligence: Workflow-based Threat Scan support for AWS VMs

The feature offers workflow-based threat scanning for AWS VMs during restores, enhancing security by identifying malware within backups. It streamlines the detection process, by allowing users to automate recovery and scans for AWS VMs.

### Partner Ecosystem

#### Integrate with Halo PSA for MSPs

Integrating Commvault Cloud with Halo PSA allows MSPs streamlines data flow and automation for routine tasks, enhancing service management efficiency and accuracy. By connecting these systems, MSPs can effectively pass crucial information such as alerts, tickets, and usage data between platforms, paving the way for future integration phases.
In this phase MSPs will be able to synchronize CRM accounts and import them seamlessly into the MSP Portal.

#### MSP Approval Layer for Dual Authorization Flow

The MSP Approval Layer for Dual Authorization Flow feature in Commvault Command Center and MSP Portal allows Managed Service Providers to set up specific authorization flows for approval requests. This ensures that approval processes within Commvault Cloud are authorized according to the MSP's preferences, providing control over data management and compliance.

### Workload Protection

#### Auto Recovery support for FS, DB and Object Storage Workloads in Commvault Cloud SaaS

Commvault Cloud SaaS now provides Auto Recovery replication support for file systems, databases, object storage in addition to existing virtual machines. This allows you to configure replication for each of these workloads from the Commvault Cloud SaaS platform.

#### Auto recovery support for OCI in Commvault Cloud SaaS

Auto recovery support for OCI in SaaS provides customers with peace of mind knowing their OCI VMs are always protected. With options like warm and hot sites, orchestrated replication, and failover testing, customers can easily recover their OCI VMs from any unforeseen issues, ensuring continuous availability and minimizing downtime.

#### Linux Access Node Support for Windows Dynamic Disk Browse & Recovery

The Linux Access Node Support for Windows Dynamic Disk Browse & Recovery feature allows system administrators to browse and recover files from Windows dynamic disk volumes using Linux access nodes. This eliminates the need for a Windows access node, streamlining recovery workflows, reducing dependencies, and improving efficiency in cross-platform environments.

## August 2025

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Automated driver and agent injection for Ubuntu VMs during recovery into AWS Cleanroom

Cleanroom Recovery simplifies the recovery of Ubuntu VMs into AWS Cleanroom, eliminating the need to insert cloud provider drivers or agents beforehand. This streamlines Cleanroom Recovery testing in the AWS Cleanroom by automatically injecting drivers and agents.

#### Threat Intelligence: Threat Scan Support for AWS EC2 (VMs) on restore operations

Threat Scan now provides support for conducting malware scans on restored AWS EC2 virtual machines, enabling proactive detection and isolation of threats in backed up EC2 instances before reintroducing them into production environments. This helps deliver clean recovery while safeguarding system integrity and security.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### SaaS Apps: Allow tenant admins to edit copy properties associated to bundled storage

Tenant admins can now directly manage the compliance lock feature for SaaS application workloads with bundled storage, such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, Endpoints, and Salesforce. This capability allows tenant admins to toggle compliance lock on or off in the storage copy property section of the plan to perform delete operations if needed, while still adhering to the existing approval process. It is important to note that if the compliance lock is turned off, it must be manually re-enabled later.

Additionally, other properties in the storage policy copy section of the plan, like retention days, can now be edited. Please note that this retention value does not impact the following workloads: M365, Google Workspace, and Dynamics 365.

### Workload Protection

#### Allow customers to use Azure Stack Hub in SaaS

Azure Local SaaS offering provides users the ability to seamlessly protect their VM workloads through a user-friendly onboarding process. This feature ensures data security and allows customers to easily maintain and manage their virtual machines in the Azure Local environment without any hassle or complication.

#### App Consistent backups

Establish data consistency and reliability by using app consistent backups for Proxmox VMs. Utilize pre-post-thaw scripts with QEMU tools to protect critical data and applications. Minimize potential data corruption and improve recovery speed and accuracy, providing peace of mind for backup administrators.

#### Automatic Selection of Access Nodes during Recovery Operations

This feature automatically selects the optimal access node for recovering VMs in a Nutanix AHV environment, ensuring recovery operations are fast, reliable, and located close to the target cluster. This saves time for backup administrators and improves the overall performance and efficiency of the recovery process.

#### Change Tracking Support for Proxmox

Commvault is adding allocated block detection to Proxmox VE backup operations, enhancing its efficiency by identifying and backing up only the allocated or used, data blocks. This feature makes backup processes easier. It saves time and money for the customer by reducing the amount of data that needs to be protected. This results in faster and more efficient backup operations.

#### Configure restore schedules for databases from the Command Center

You can schedule restores for databases from the Command Center. This enables readiness for cyber recovery by automating the restoration process and saving time so you can quickly recover data in the event of a cyberattack.
You can configure restore schedules for the following databases:

- DB2
- DB2 Multinode
- Informix
- Oracle
- Oracle RAC
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SAP HANA
- SAP for Oracle
- SQL Server
- Sybase ASE

#### Load Balancing for File Indexing and Live Browse

Our Load Balancing feature allows you to seamlessly deploy multiple file indexing and live browse nodes, ensuring optimal performance by intelligently distributing traffic among them. This enhances the reliability and speed of searching and browsing through files, providing you with a seamless user experience while optimizing system resources for maximum efficiency.

#### Rename Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local

Azure Stack HCI has been renamed to Azure Local to maintain consistent branding. All user interfaces, menus, tooltips, error messages, and documentation have been updated. This change ensures clarity for end customers, aligning terminology with the latest product branding and making it easier for users to navigate and understand the Azure services.

#### Unified onboarding for object storage

Commvault makes self-service onboarding easier and more consistent for Azure Blob Storage, Azure ADLS Gen2, and Amazon S3 with a unified wizard.

## July 2025

### Commvault Cloud Platform

#### Auxiliary Copy Performance Reports in Command Center

This feature adds Auxiliary Copy Reports to the Command Center, providing Backup Administrators with key performance metrics for their auxiliary backup copies in a centralized location. This enables quick evaluation of replication operations to provide alignment with recovery objectives.

### Commvault Security Solutions

#### Cyber resiliency dashboard

The Cyber Resilience Dashboard provides IT security teams with real-time insights to understand and enhance the organization's readiness-to-recover from cyber incidents involving Commvault-backed assets. With insights like an overall resilience index, backup SLA monitoring, storage performance analysis, and alert notifications, it enables proactive decision-making, quick issue identification, and demonstrates recovery capabilities efficiently.

#### Incremental Threat Scan Support for VMs

Incremental Threat Scan support for VMs allows IT administrators to schedule bulk scans on virtual machines, quickly identifying new threats by scanning only modified items since the last successful scan. This proactive and efficient approach ensures faster detection without significant performance impact, enabling response to security threats within the virtual environment.

### SaaS Applications and Active Directory

#### AD object security now preserved in backups

We have enhanced our Active Directory backup capabilities to include the nTSecurityDescriptor attribute, so that object-level security settings—like explicit ACLs and the "Protect object from accidental deletion" flag—are fully captured and restored. This update helps safeguard critical permissions and maintain security integrity during recovery.

### Workload Protection

#### Allow Linux Access Nodes to perform operations on Windows Dynamic Disks

This feature enables Linux access nodes to scan, mount, and perform file-level recovery on Windows Dynamic Disks using libldm library and ldmtool. Backup administrators benefit from directly accessing and managing Windows volumes on Linux, eliminating the need for separate Windows access nodes. This streamlines operations and enhances efficiency in the backup and recovery process.

#### Azure Express configuration for Azure Databases

Users can now use the Express Configuration Wizard to quickly and securely onboard Azure SQL Server databases for backup in Commvault Cloud.

Key Benefits of the Express Configuration Wizard:

- Faster, Automated Setup: Automatically creates the required Azure application and role (CVBackupRole), eliminating manual steps and reducing configuration time.

- Simplified Security Integration: Uses OAuth authentication and predefined permissions for a secure, hassle-free connection to your Azure environment.
  The Custom Configuration Wizard remains available for advanced users who prefer manual control over app creation and role assignment.

#### Cross-Region Copy for Amazon DocumentDB Snapshots

Cross-region copy for Amazon DocumentDB manual snapshots allows you to duplicate your production cluster data for staging, development, or backup. This feature strengthens data protection and disaster recovery, with flexible region choices to help meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

#### Safeguarding Encryption Keys for DB2 Encrypted Databases

This feature enables administrators to safeguard encryption keys together with the DB2 database, providing end-to-end protection and enabling transparent restores. By streamlining the process and removing the need to locate and recover keys, it helps to minimize the overall recovery time objective (RTO).

#### Single Node Replica Set Enhancements for MongoDB

Enhancements to Commvault's support of MongoDB's single-node replica sets remove the need for extra settings with streamlined handling. Users are now notified of primary quiesce events. The feature also extends support for single-node replica sets within sharded cluster deployments, improving usability and scalability for end customers.

#### Streamlined Protection for DB2 Database in HADR Cluster Deployments

The feature provides streamlined database protection for DB2 databases in HADR cluster deployments with Virtual IP (VIP) configurations. This enables administrators to perform reliable backup operations without manual intervention after a failover.

#### Support for Amazon DynamoDB Local Secondary Index (LSI)

This feature adds support for backup and recovery of Amazon DynamoDB indexes (LSI), enabling table data and associated indexes to be protected and recoverable during both scheduled and on-demand backup operations. This allows customers to streamline their recovery workflows by replacing the time-consuming task of rebuilding indexes manually.

#### Support for Azure Elastic SAN on VMs

Commvault now offers support for Azure Elastic SAN on VMs, enabling users to protect and recover data stored on SAN-level shared storage within Azure. This feature enhances data protection capabilities for Azure VMs and AKS containers, providing peace of mind knowing that important data is safeguarded and can be easily recovered when needed.

#### Support for Incremental Backups using Amazon DynamoDB Streams

This feature enables scheduled incremental backups by using Amazon DynamoDB streams to capture incremental changes. Customers can implement cost-effective data protection for their Amazon DynamoDB tables.

#### Support for User Managed Service Account for Google Cloud VMs

The User Managed Service Account feature allows you to directly associate the necessary Google Cloud service account with the access node. This removes the need to share the private key with Commvault, offering a more secure option for customers with organizational policies restricting key sharing. It helps keep your sensitive Google Cloud VM data protected.

#### VMware vSphere VM to Proxmox VE Conversion

The VMware vSphere to Proxmox VE conversion feature simplifies migrating virtual machines. This helps vSphere administrators move or recover VMs to Proxmox VE efficiently. It streamlines the transition, saving time and effort while supporting continuous operations for users adopting Proxmox VE.

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