Overview
Commvault's data protection and information management solutions provide mid- and enterprise-level organizations worldwide with a significantly better way to get value from their data
Commvault can help companies protect, access and use all of their data, anywhere and anytime, turning data into a powerful strategic asset.
Founded in 1996, Commvault is publicly traded (NASDAQ: CVLT) and headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
To learn more about our solutions please visit https://www.commvault.com/solutions
Product Description
Commvault’s Virtual Server Agent for the OpenStack Cloud is built to integrate natively with the OpenStack APIs to perform all necessary functions. It offers the ability to perform complete VM image backups without disruption of the running workloads. The state of the running virtual machine is captured as a point in time backup and protected without the need for an in-guest agent.
Protection operations are policy driven and leverage an auto discovery mechanism that intelligently maps the right VM instances to the correct policy. Tenant or rule based discovery automatically protect newly created VMs as they are provisioned or move around in the environment. Images and volumes are protected as a whole using a holistic approach that understands the OpenStack distributed nature.
Protection operations using the Commvault’s Virtual Server Agent for OpenStack can automatically and dynamically distribute the load across the hypervisor hosts. Backup proxies (which are VMs themselves) can easily scale as needed, and as an aggregate are able to intelligently allocate resources to process VM instances in the most efficient manner possible.
Client side deduplication reduces the data transfer to the Commvault backup library not only expediting the backup process but also dramatically reducing the virtual machine backup data copies which can be stored to disk, tape, or a cloud repository. Deduplication is also leveraged to implement a Disaster Recovery strategy by sending VM copies to stand-by sites across data centers and/or OpenStack environments.
To learn more about Commvault’s Openstack Instance protection solution please see our getting started page
Key Features and Benefits
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Commvault provides the ability to perform OpenStack instance protection for both traditional and next gen. workloads using a top down approach.
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OpenStack APIs and native snapshot methodology is used for easy of deployment and un-intrusive presence in the environment.
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Both persistent and ephemeral configurations of running instances can be intelligently targeted for uninterrupted workload backups.
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File level restores can be performed from full instance backups using an on-demand “live” file system browse of the backup content.
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Application consistency for traditional workloads running inside OpenStack instances can be achieved using an AppAware plugin that is dynamically deployed.
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Easily scalable by simply deploying additional Virtual Server Agent proxies that live as VMs inside the OpenStack environment which automatically cooperate with each other for the most efficient possible protection processes.
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Deduplicated block level WAN transfers for disaster recovery strategy across datacenters and even separate OpenStack environments.
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Tenant aware self-service capabilities via Commvault’s web based AdminConsole UI
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The ability to protect tenant VM instances from a separate backup or management tenancy so not to impact customers’ quotas or inform the customer tenant that a protection operation is even occurring.
Category
Red Hat Certifications
This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:
| Target Product | Level |
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| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 Base: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (x86_64) 7.4-7.x for Other |
Certified |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | Self-Certified |