Newsletter for New Features in Feature Release 11.22

• Enabling SSL Communication with the SAP HANA System

• Commvault VTL improves backup-restore throughput by going over a fibre channel.
• Commvault VTL simplifies disaster recovery of IBM i servers.

• Install Commvault VTL for the IBM i File System Agent on the Linux access node.
• Configure Fibre Channel (FC) network zoning to allow access to the Linux access nodeFC target from the IBM i server.

• Installing VTL on the Linux Access Node

• View the DB2 version upgrade history in the Command Center
• View the DB2 version upgrade history in the CommCell Console

• Disk and tape library settings
• Storage policy and storage policy copy settings
• Media management settings
• Data aging settings

• CommCell Configuration Audit Report

• Notes Database Agent: System Requirements
• Notes Document Agent: System Requirements
• Domino Mailbox Archiver Agent: System Requirements

• NDMP
• UNIX File System on a NAS client
• Windows File System on a NAS client

• 32-bit Linux
• 64-bit Linux
• Linuxppc64
• Windows

• NDMP: Enabling Snapshot Cataloging
• Network Share:Snapshot Cataloging

• Back up Informix instances and dbspaces on demandor on a schedule.
• Restore Informix instances, to the most recent time,to a point in time, or up to a specific logical log.
• Run log backups at a greater frequency usingdisk cache, without adding to the workload of the CommServe computer.

• Informix

• IntelliSnap Support for Virtualization

• Disk Caching for Frequent Log Backups
• Optimizing Informix Log Backups

• Pre-defined archiving rules for managing backed-up data.
• File indexing for search and retrieval.

• Macintosh
• Windows
• UNIX

• NAS
  • NetApp
  • EMC Celerra
  • Hitachi NAS (BlueArc), EMC Unity, and Isilon
• Network share

• Archiving Files Using the Command Center

• Faster Incremental Backups of Dell EMC Isilon with Changelist

• SharePoint Online
• Microsoft Office 365 with SharePoint Server

• Include the tiles that are most relevant to you
• Reorder tiles to fit your needs
• Create new dashboards to target specific teams or goals
• Limit user access to specific users or groups

• Custom Dashboards in the Command Center

• Oracle
• Oracle RAC

• Duplicating an Oracle Database
• Duplicating an Oracle RAC Database

• DB2 MultiNode

• You can perform site-level configuration and management.
• You can back up and restore the SharePoint sitesusing multiple access nodes for a faster backup operation.
• Suitable for service providers to provide backup as a service for SharePoint Online.

• SharePoint Online

• SAP for Oracle

• Company Views for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in Metrics Reports

• Uses Commvault IntelliSnap technology to protect the cluster
• Protects both replica set topologies and sharded cluster topologies
• Protects the MongoDB databases from the secondary node, without using the primary node resources
• Allows recovery of the entire cluster
• Allows recovery to the original cluster or to a different cluster with the same number of shards, on-premises or within the cloud

• MongoDB

• MEDITECH with Nutanix AHV for the Command Center

• Configuring Copy-Only Backups on Availability Group Instances

• You can restore data from the copied snapshot even if the source snapshot or the source RDS or EC2 instance is deleted, thereby providing an additional layer of security or air gap.

• Amazon RDS
• VSAfor Amazon

• Creating a Snapshot Copy of Amazon RDS or an Aurora Database in a Different Account
• Creating a Snapshot Copy of Amazon EC2 in a Different Account

• Backups for Azure(Command Center)
• Backups(CommCell Console)

• Backups and restores using vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
• Changed block tracking (CBT)
• Full, incremental, differential, and synthetic full backups
• Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attaching to a VM), and guest files and folders
• Agentless file recovery
• Application-aware backups
• VM conversion from VMware to Microsoft Azure
• VM conversion from Microsoft Azure to VMware
• Live Sync replication and Live Sync Direct for snapshot-based replication
• Replication from VMware to Microsoft Azure

• Support for Azure VMware Solution

• Active Directory Agent
• Exchange Database Agent
• Microsoft SharePoint Agent
• Microsoft SQL Server Agent
• MySQL Agent
• Oracle Agent
• Virtual Server Agent for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

• Application guest VMs and VSA proxies must have access to Azure Stack Hubendpoints.
• To perform application discovery, the CommServe computer must be able to connect to the application guest VMs. (If the CommServe computer cannot connect to the guest VMs, you must install the file system core package on the guest VMs, and then configure the CommServe computer accordingly.)
• For backups of Oracle databases running on Linux VMs, the CommServe computer, MediaAgent, backup proxy, FREL, and Oracle agent client must reside on the Azure Stack Hub hypervisor. There cannot be any on-premise clients.

• Application-Aware Backups

• Monitor replication status and performance to ensure that you meet recovery objectives.
• Manage DR orchestration operations such as failover and failback.

• Cross-Platform Feature Support for Replication
• Creating a Replication Group Using the Replication Wizard

Virtual Server Agent

• To specify a standard location where VMs are mounted, or to enable non-admin users to configure backup validation, create a recovery target.
• Create a VM group for each set of guest VMs that run an application. For example, you can create one VM group for VMs that run SQL Server, and a separate VM group for VMs that run Exchange.
• Obtain credentials for guest VMs that run applications.
• Use a Windows access node (VSA proxy) for application validation.
• If necessary, create custom validation scripts for applications. A script for SQL Server is included with the Virtual Server Agent package.

• Application Validation for VMware VMs

• You can automatically back up databases and archive logs by using policies that are developed to meet your recovery point objectives.
• You can create instant clones (live mounts) of an Oracle database for a specified point in time and automate the lifecycle of the instant clones.

• Oracle Copy Data Management

• Periodic replication
• Continuous replication for VMware using VAIO filters
• Continuous DR orchestration, group support
• Multiple cloud support
• Planned or unplanned failover, failback, and other orchestration features
• Replication monitoring and compliance reporting
• Validation of replicated virtual machines and instances at disaster recovery sites

• Disaster Recovery

• Hedvig
• Creating a Recovery Target
• Copy Data Management Using Hedvig Storage Clusters
• Registering Hedvig Clusters
• Assigning Roles to Users or User Groups for Hedvig Clusters
• Launching the Hedvig Web User-Interface

• Backups for Google Cloud Platform

• Quickly configure file servers, storage, and subclients to back up
• Back up subclients immediately or on a schedule
• Restore CIFS shares and NFS exports to the source Nutanix Files file server or any other file location
• Monitor jobs, events, and alerts

• Windows File System Agent
• Linux File System Agent

• Nutanix Files

• Performing File System Restores to Cloud Storage Accounts

• Converting to Azure Stack Hub

• Replication of SAP HANA Databases

• Azure NetApp Files for SAP HANA

• Microsoft Azure Snap

• Creating Disk Filters for Google Cloud Platform

• Oracle
• SAP HANA
• UNIX File System
• Windows File System

• Google Cloud Platform

• The user must have Service Administrator role privileges.
• The access nodes must be in the Azure cloud.

• Configuring an Azure SQL Instance

• Use STS:AssumeRole to centralize backup operations, while assuming the role of each protected sub-account during backup activities.
• Remove the requirement to provision Amazon Access Nodes per account, by using a single pool of Access Nodes to protect many accounts.
• Remove the use of Access Key/Secret Key configurations which require manual key rotation to stay secure over time.

• Virtual Server Agent (VSA) for Amazon
• Virtual Server Agent for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Cloud Apps agent for Amazon S3

• At least two distinct Amazon accounts or IAM Roles must exist.
• The sub-account must explicitly trust the organizational service account to permit request of temporary credentials from the STS service.
• Both the service account and the sub-account must have the permissions to perform backup via either amazon_permission_backup_restore.json or amazon_restricted_role_permissions.json.
• The service account must be granted permission to call the STS:AssumeRole() API call.
• The Amazon Access Node must have layer 3 connectivity to https://sts.amazonaws.com either directly or via HTTP PROXY.

• Configuring STS Role Authentication
• Creating a Role with Restricted Access
• Creating a vmimport role
• Amazon Web Services Permission Usage
• Guided Setup for Amazon
• Adding an Amazon Hypervisor
• Creating an Amazon RDS Client
• Enabling Cross-Account Sharing of an Amazon RDS Snapshot Copy
• Using an IAM Role to Grant Permissions to Applications Running on Amazon EC2 Instances
• AWS Security Token Service
• AssumeRole

• Automatically creates up to 100 access nodes to back up VMs.
• Automatically decommissions access nodes after 1 hour of inactivity using the Power Management feature and the Lifecycle Management feature.

• Automatic Scaling for Azure Access Nodes

• Microsoft Azure Storage - IAM AD Application Role Assignment

• A VSA for Amazon agent must exist in the destination availability zone to perform a restore operation.
• An Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) or an equivalent KMIP-compliant encryption key must pre-exist for use during the restore operation.

• Restoring Full Instances for Amazon
• Amazon EBS volume types
• Cross-Hypervisor Restores (VM Conversion)
• Converting to Amazon

• Back up and recover AWS Outposts-hosted workloads.
• Cloud native snapshot orchestration and back up to Commvault cloud libraries.
• Ensure data residency needs are met for AWS Outposts backup data with plans.
• Migrate data between AWS region and AWS Outposts with Commvault automation.
• Extend your Disaster Recovery landscape with failover/failback between AWS region and AWS Outposts, and vice versa.

• Virtual Server Agent (VSA) for Amazon.
• Virtual Server Agent (VSA) for Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, EKS).
• MySQL Agent (if performing MySQL dump/export backup)
• PostgreSQL Agent (if performing PostgreSQL dump/export backup).

• At least one AWS access node is required to perform EC2, RDS, and EKS backups.
• The access node for EC2 and RDS backups must be located in the AWS region.
• The access node for EKS and RDS dump/export backups must be located within AWS Outposts.
• AWS Outposts workloads are identified by subnet only. Commvault recommends the use of AWS tagging to identify AWS Outposts applications for backup and restores.
• AWS Outposts does not currently provide Amazon S3 storage. All EBS snapshots are stored in the region.
  • If localized backup copies are required (within AWS Outposts), the EBS volumes can be provisioned as a Commvault disk library.
  • Commvault can be directed to write to local storage devices outside your AWS Outposts via an Amazon Local Gateway (LGW).

• AWS Outposts

• Streaming and IntelliSnap backups and restores for virtual machines using vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
• Changed block tracking (CBT)
• Full, incremental, differential, and synthetic full backups
• Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attaching to a VM), and guest files and folders
• Agentless file recovery to virtual machines
• Replication from streaming or IntelliSnapbackups
• Live mount
• Live VM recovery
• File indexing (in Command Center)

• Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

• You can perform user-level configuration and management.
• You can back up and restore the user accounts using multiple access nodes for a faster backup operation.
• Suitable for service providers to provide backup as a service for OneDrive for Business.

• OneDrive for Business

• Restoring an Exchange Archiving Mailbox to a Point-In-Time
• Restoring an Exchange Online Mailbox to aPoint-In-Time

• A Windows or Linux file server with the Virtual Server package installed
• An Azure cloud account

• Azure Cosmos DB

• Backups and restores using vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
• Changed block tracking (CBT)
• Full, incremental, differential, and synthetic full backups
• Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attaching to a VM), and guest files and folders
• Agentless file recovery
• Application-aware backups
• VM conversion from VMware to GCP
• Replication from streaming or IntelliSnapbackups

• Google Cloud VMware Engine

• Backups for Google Cloud Platform

• Customize the Amazon EBS volume type for the replicated EBS volumes.
• Customize the Amazon KMS encryption key for the replicated EBS volumes.

• To perform EBS volume encryption, you must have a pre-existing Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) or an equivalent KMIP-compliant encryption key available in the destination account.
• To perform a HotAdd optimized recovery, you must have an AWS access node, and identical source and destination regions.
• If the source and destination regions are different, then a non-optimized VM import/export recovery is performed.

• Replication Group Options for Amazon
• Recovery Target Options for Amazon
• Amazon EBS Volume Types
• VM Conversion Using the Import Method
• HotAdd Restores

• Perform a full volume HotAdd recovery with the access node in any Availability Zone within the destination region.
• Perform a full VM HotAdd recovery (including VM conversion) with the access node in any Availability Zone within the destination region.
• Perform a VM live sync with the access node in any Availability Zone within the destination region.

• HotAdd Restore Process (Using Amazon Proxy) Where Proxy and Destination Instance are in Different Zones
• Restoring Full Instances
• Conversion Using the HotAdd Restore Method
• Replication Using the HotAdd Restore Method

• Perform an EC2/EBS backup copy operationby requesting the backup data via ebs:GetSnapshotBlock.(ebs:GetSnapshotBlock is transferred from the EBS direct endpoints. Commvault recommends that you use EBS VPC endpoints.)
• Perform a Commvault auxiliary copy operation by requesting data via ebs:GetSnapshotBlock.
• Perform multi-tenant and multi-account protection with ebs:GetSnapshotBlock.
• Leverage on-premises access nodes to protect EC2/EBS(egress charges apply).

• Direct Read Backups for Amazon
• AWS launches EBS direct APIs that provide read access to EBS snapshot data, enabling backup providers to achieve faster backups of EBS volumes at lower costs.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs. SeeAmazon Elastic Block Store API Reference.
• Amazon EBS Pricing. Go toAmazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots.

• Converting to VMware

• Adding a Salesforce App
• Managed Server Provider Configuration for Salesforce

• Required Information for Converting from Amazon to VMware

• Automatically Managing the State of MediaAgents

• NDMP

• NetApp file server

• Performing Restore Operations for NDMP

• Quickly configure file servers, storage, and subclients to back up
• Back up subclients on demand or on a schedule
• Restore CIFS shares and NFS exports to the source Qumulo file server or any other file location

• Qumulo File Storage

• After enabling a passkey, the Authorize for restore option appears. Enable the Authorize for restore option to allow an end-user that entered the correct passkey to browse and restore backup data for a period of thirty minutes.
• An MSP administrator and tenant administrator can enable and require the passkey feature, using the Command Center.
• A client owner can create and require the passkey feature using the Command Center, Web Console, and CommCell Console.
• All users (the MSP administrator, tenant administrators, and client owners) can use REST API requests to create and require a passkey for a client computer.
• If passkeys are defined at multiple levels, the lowest level passkey takes precedence. For example, a passkey that is configured for a client computer takes precedence over a passkey that is configured for a company, and a user who is performing a restore for the client computer must use the passkey that is configured by the client owner.

• Requiring a Passkey as an MSP Administrator
• Enabling CommCell environment Client Owners to Require a Passkey
• Requiring a Passkey in the Command Center as a Tenant Administrator
• Configuring a Passkey in the CommCell Console as a Tenant Administrator
• Enabling Company Client Owners to Require a Passkey
• Requiring a Passkey in the Command Center as a Laptop Device Owner
• Configuring a Passkey in the Commcell Console as a Client Owner
• Requiring a Passkey as a Client Owner in the Web Console
• Creating a Passkey for Virtual Machine Restores
• REST API - POST Passkey (Company Level)
• REST API - POST Authorize for Restore (Company Level)
• REST API - POST Passkey (Client Level)
• REST API - POST Authorize for Restore (Client level)

• Managing Service CommCells

• Ransomware Protection for Disk Libraries on a Linux MediaAgent

• Run analytics tools on the data managed by PodCells.
• Save storage space by avoiding temporary restores of data from multiple PodCells.

• Windows File System
• UNIX File System
• Windows Archiving
• UNIX Archiving

• Global Repository Cell (GRC) Support for 3DFS

• Viewing File Monitoring Information
• Adding File System Data Sources to a Project

• Adding a File Server Data Source for File Storage Optimization

• Getting Started with the Case Manager for Exchange Mailboxes and File System Data
• Creating a Case for File Server Data
• Filters for Advanced Search in Compliance Search

• Index Server

• File Storage Optimization
• Activate E-Discovery For Files
• Activate E-Discovery for Email/Cloud Apps
• Activate Sensitive Data for Files
• Activate Sensitive Data for Email/Cloud Apps

• Data Views for the License Summary Report

• Tag Manager