Introduction

Commvault is an enterprise data protection platform designed for medium and large environments, delivering a highly customizable web-based interface to manage disaster recovery and data protection operations. It standardizes backup and recovery workflows, applies predefined configuration settings, and reduces execution time for routine protection tasks.

Through the command center of Commvault, administrators can identify data to be protected, configure and initiate backup jobs, and monitor and control restore operations.

What is Commvault

Commvault is a management and information solution that offers to handle and secure our enterprise data. This application helps data recovery, backup, cloud management, and infrastructure services. It allows us to access and utilize the enterprise data anytime and anywhere.

Why Commvault

Use the Commvault application in AWS and cloud solutions for securing, backup, and accessing their data.

Storage: This application supports to store the secured data on the tape, disk, and database server. The application is designed to support data backup, data recovery, and disaster recovery management functions.

Data and Information access: Provides access to emails and data files and can store the documentation, and assist in retrieving and recovering them continuously from mobile pages and web-based interfaces.

Altering, Analysis, and Reporting: Commvault alters the events that need attention, reports with in-depth information on the operations, and detailed data analytics to provide a thorough evaluation to the CommCell.

Data Protection: Data protection methods like archiving, replication, backup, and snapshots are supported on all the primary applications and operating systems.

Administration: Every administrative task is centrally handled by using one administrative interface. It enables to perform the tasks through web-based interfaces and mobile devices.

Advantages Of Commvault

Following are some essential advantages of Commvault:

• Commvault is the best solution for Physical Clients, Virtual server backup environments, and Servers.
• It provides a unique solution for disaster data recovery in physical servers and virtual server environments.
• Commvault also restores the Oracle database table and storage.
• Commvault deploys on cross-platform systems like UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
• Commvault indexes the backup contents on the Microsoft Search Engine Active Directories.

Commvault Commcell

CommCell environment is the categorization of all the Commvault elements that move, store, secure, and handle the data and information. CommServe server and CommCell console play vital roles in managing CommCell Operations.

CommServer server

The CommServe server is the central management element of the CommCell environment. It ensembles and runs all the CommCell operations and maintains all the Microsoft SQL Server databases that include all the configurations, operational history, and security.

CommCell Console

CommCell Console is the central management element user interface to handle the CommCell environment - controlling and monitoring all the viewing events and active jobs associated with all the activities. CommCell allows centralized and decentralized enterprises to handle all the data movement activities through a standard and single interface.

Commcell Operations

Disaster Recovery Backup: Disaster recovery backup performs standard backups of the CommServe database. It is essential to fetch this information in case of a system failure or disaster.

Data Aging: We run the data aging operation for removing the data that has prolonged its user-defined retention rule.

Restore DR Data to disk: We can restore by jobs feature for restoring the Disaster recovery backup data.

Auxiliary Copy: The auxiliary copy operation enables us to create minor copies of the data related to the data prevention operations, irrespective of the native copy.

Send Log Files: We can send and view the log files of the operations on our system through a CommServe computer.

View Schedules: Through the CommCell browser, we can modify and view all the jobs scheduled for running on a CommServe server through the jobs planned window. The Scheduled jobs window allows us to review the scheduled jobs and recognize the client computers they execute.

Event Search: We can carry out a search operation for particular events that happened in our CommCell configuration.

View Log Files: We can see the log files generated by the MediaAgent. Files in the provided computer may vary according to the computer’s role in the CommCell Architecture.

View Admin Job History: We can see the job history of all administration jobs that have been executed.

View Users Logged In: We can view the users currently logged onto the CommCell Console.

The following helps you get started.

• To explore monitored metrics, see Supported Metrics and Default Monitoring Configuration.

• To verify prerequisites and configure, see Working with Commvault.

Key Use Cases

Discovery Use Cases

• Provides resource visibility to the administrator to view and manage resources available (Ex: Clients) under different resource types.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.
• Refer to the see Resource Hierarchy for detailed structure.

Monitoring Use Cases

• Provides monitoring related to availability, performance, capacity, and usage.
• Generates alerts when defined metric thresholds are breached, notifying users of potential issues.
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource.
• For complete list of metrics, see Supported Metrics and Default Monitoring Configuration.

Supported Target Versions

• 11 SP32.35

Resource Hierarchy

If you select CommCell Type as CommCell, the following is the resource hierarchy.

CommCell
        → CommServer

If you select CommCell Type as CommCell - Client, the following is the resource hierarchy.

CommCell - Client
        → CommServer
                → Client

Version History