Virtualization

The Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides complete data protection and recovery for virtual machine data, including full virtual machine backups, incremental backups, and synthetic full backups, with support for full VM recovery as well as granular disk and file recovery. The default configuration enables protection for all virtual machines managed by the virtualization platform; you can also configure protection for specific virtual machines or define rules to discover VMs automatically based on criteria such as the host, storage location, and other criteria. When automatic discovery is combined with the ability to define filter rules, you can easily target virtual machines to support different service level agreements (SLAs) and distribute data protection jobs across your available operating window.

To simplify management of virtual machine data, Commvault and the VSA provide a single administration point for different virtualization platforms, policy-based protection, job management, scheduling, and reporting features.

To reduce the impact on production systems and ensure data security, Commvault and the VSA provide enhanced data protection and data transfer features such as proxy-based backups, advanced transport support, hardware-agnostic media management, deduplication, compression, and encryption.

The Virtual Server Agent can be installed on physical or virtual machines, and can be used by itself to protect the entire virtual machine or in conjunction with a guest agent to protect high transaction applications, such as the SQL Server Agent or Exchange Database Agent.

Supported Hypervisors

The VSA supports data protection and recovery for the following hypervisors:

Commvault supports many virtualized platforms in the Command Center, the CommCell Console, or both.

Virtualized platform

Supported on

Links

Alibaba Cloud

Command Center

Alibaba Cloud

Amazon EC2

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Amazon EC2

Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)

CommCell Console

Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)

Google Cloud Platform

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Google Cloud Platform

Huawei FusionCompute

CommCell Console

Huawei FusionCompute

Azure

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Azure

Azure Stack Hub

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Azure Stack Hub

Azure Stack HCI

Command Center (from 11.21)

Azure Stack HCI

Hyper-V

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Hyper-V

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor

Kubernetes

Command Center (from 11.20)

Kubernetes

OpenStack

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

OpenStack

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Command Center

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle VM

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Oracle VM

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

Red Hat Virtualization

VMware Cloud Director

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

VMware Cloud Director

VMware (vCenter or ESX server)

  • Command Center

  • CommCell Console

VMware

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