Newsletter for New Features in Feature Release 11.22

Snapshot cataloging for NDMP and network shares uses NetApp SnapDiff v2 when a NetApp storage array is used. Because SnapDiff v2 is faster than the previous version of SnapDiff, snapshot cataloging completes faster.

You can back up and restore either the entire Informix server or individual dbspaces in the Command Center.

With file archiving, you can keep an archive copy of data on secondary disk, tape, or cloud storage. The archived data will be available for quick and easy retrieval.

When you have a large number of files to back up in a dataset, and even if only a few files were modified, the regular file system incremental backup operations scans all the files in the dataset to check for changes, which takes a large amount of time. Changelist is a feature of Dell EMC Isilon that is used to track the changes between two snapshots at a time. When you run an incremental backup for new clients, the Dell EMC Isilon's Changelist feature is used to identify the changes since the last backup operation. As a result, the file scan times are decreased, and the backup operations are faster.

Using the edit view, you can customize Command Center dashboards by adding, rearranging, and removing tiles. Change the title of a dashboard or create a new dashboard by cloning an existing dashboard.

You can duplicate Oracle and Oracle RAC databases from the Command Center. You can also create a standby database using the duplicate option.

You can back up and restore DB2 MultiNode databases from the Command Center. You can run in-place and out-of-place restore operations for the databases.

You can use the Office 365 solution to back up and restore data in SharePoint Online.

You can back up and restore Oracle databases in large-scale SAP environments from the Command Center. You can perform full and incremental backups of the database and logs. You can restore to the same instance and host (in place) or to a different destination and host (out of place). The SAP for Oracle agent integrates with the SAP BRTools and Backint for Oracle interface for the backup and restore operations.

In a multi-tenant CommCell environment, you can configure the Private Metrics Reporting Server to display data for all of the companies that MSP administrators manage. Company data appears in the Command Center dashboard and in some Metrics reports. After you enable company views, MSP administrators can view either data for all companies or data for each individual company in Metrics reports.

You can use Commvault software to perform application-aware backup operations for virtual machines that run under Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and that host the following applications:

• Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Oracle database for Linux (streaming backups only)
• Oracle database for Windows

You can configure replication for VMware VMs to Azure Stack Hub destination sites using a replication wizard that simplifies and streamlines the configuration process. The replication wizard guides you through the process of setting up source and destination sites for disaster recovery (DR), helping you manage storage, network settings, data transport, and secondary copies.

For Oracle databases, you can run forever incremental backups that are stored in the Commvault Hybrid File Store. The Commvault software uses the Oracle incremental merge feature to create the backups. You can use these backups to automate the creation of instant clones for DevOps automation requirements.

Commvault Disaster Recovery provides disaster recovery and orchestration for virtualized workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, Azure, Azure Stack Hub, Hyper-V, and VMware. You can configure replication for virtual machines and instances quickly, using a configuration wizard that streamlines the configuration process.

Commvault provides the following solutions with Hedvig storage:

• Hedvig storage management using the Command Center
• Hedvig as a disaster recovery target
• Copy data management

You can use the automatic scaling feature to launch access nodes in Azure only when you need to back up VMs, and then decommission the access nodes soon after you use them. This feature reduces the amount of time that you use Azure access nodes for backup, and can also reduce the cost of using them.

You can configure Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) authentication to authenticate a cloud storage library. Use the Azure AD App Registration tool to create a Microsoft Azure AD application. The tool also creates a credential for Azure RBAC. When you create a Microsoft Azure cloud storage library, you can assign the credential to the library.

To optimize storage configuration, specify the required Amazon EBS volume type and encryption key during full instance restores and conversion to Amazon. Specifying an encryption key ensures the data remains encrypted from source to destination.

You can deploy Commvault to protect workloads running in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. The vCenter and hosts reside on high-performance servers in the Oracle Cloud datacenter. You can use Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with Commvault 11.20, or a more recent feature release.

You can use the Office 365 solution to back up and restore data in OneDrive for Business.

You can restore the data of one or more mailboxes from a backup to a state or a folder structure at a given point-in-time. You can revert the mailbox to a state just before an undesired incident occurred in the mailbox.

Commvault supports backup and restore functionality for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB accounts with Core (SQL API). Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed and multi-model cloud database (Database-as-a-Service). You can configure full and incremental backups for the database containers to meet the desired SLA, long-term retention, and compliance needs. This functionality is available using the Command Center, REST APIs, or the command line interface.

Commvault support for Google Cloud VMware Engine is certified by Google for Feature Release 22 and subsequent releases. From the Command Center, you can deploy Commvault to protect workloads running in Google Cloud VMware Engine. The vCenter and hosts reside on high-performance servers in the Google Cloud datacenter.

You can back up and restore GCP instance disks that are encrypted with a customer-managed encryption key. Customer-managed encryption keys are generated using the Google Cloud Key Management Service.

When Amazon EC2 instances are replicated to a different region or to a different Availability Zone, the business purpose and the operational team of the EC2 instances often change. To optimize the cost and performance of the replicated EC2 instances, you can customize the destination Amazon EBS volume type. Also, you can encrypt or re-encrypt the destination Amazon EBS volume with an Amazon KMS key that is different from the KMS key used by the source EBS volume. Data in transit between the source and the destination is always encrypted.

You can perform a HotAdd recovery if one or more EBS volumes are attached to an AWS access node for restores. You can use the HotAdd recovery method for a full volume restore, for a VM conversion, or for a VM live sync replication. This feature allows you to perform a HotAdd recovery by using an access node residing in any Availability Zone (AZ), within the restore region. For example, if the AWS access node is in us-east-1b, you can use it to perform HotAdd restores in us-east-1a,b,c,d,e,f. This ability drastically reduces the amount of infrastructure required to perform a multi-AZ recovery, and, therefore, the cloud runtime costs.

Direct read backups improve backups for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes by leveraging the newly-announced Amazon EBS direct APIs. Direct read backups read data off the EBS snapshots directly, without the need to create and attach volumes to the access node. This enhancement provides improved recovery point objectives (RPOs), faster backups, and reduced backup costs.

When you restore a Google Cloud Platform virtual machine (VM) from a backup, you can restore the VM as a VMware VM.

New features are added to existing capabilities in Command Center for Salesforce:

• You can access your Salesforce account by using the OAuth protocol.
• If you are a Managed Service Provider (MSP), you can simplify the setup for your tenants.

In the Command Center, when you restore an Amazon instance from a backup, you can restore it as a VMware vSphere virtual machine. You can restore an instance from a streaming backup or from a secondary copy. You cannot restore an instance from a snapshot copy or from an IntelliSnap backup copy.

The software uses historic data and machine learning algorithms to monitor the key performance indicator (KPI) anomalies for MediaAgents. You can configure the software to automatically enable, disable, or restart the MediaAgents to correct the KPI anomalies and to help increase the job success rates.

NDMP restore operations that only include files automatically use the Synthetic Restore feature when the files are restored to a NetApp file server and the backup does not include alternate data streams (ADS). The Synthetic Restore feature generates a backup image that only contains the data selected for the restore operation. The Synthetic Restore feature is especially useful when you restore a small number of files from a backup that contains a large number of files.

You can back up and restore data (CIFS shares and NFS exports) that resides on your Qumulo file server.

By exporting the backup data as 3DFS shares from the Global Repository Cell (GRC), you can access the backup data of the PodCell. On the exported share, you can perform browse and restore operations.

In the Command Center, you can use Case Manager and Compliance Search to preserve and to discover files relevant to legal proceedings.

From the Command Center interface, you can configure a new index server, add nodes to an existing index server, and monitor the performance of an existing index server.

You can view usage information about Activate licenses in the License Summary Report. The report displays information about the licenses that your organization purchased and used for Activate features, which are measured individually.