CommVault Shadow Explorer
CommVault Shadow Explorer software offers expanded support for Windows-centric enterprises. This powerful utility is the industry's first software product that fully leverages the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) capabilities. CommVault Shadow Explorer software is hardware agnostic, application aware, and provides the ability to easily manage hardware and software shadow copies created by Microsoft's VSS. The software shadow copies can also be moved to other Windows Server 2003 hosts through VDS.

CommVault Shadow Explorer software has a wide range of uses for customers deploying or migrating to Windows Server 2003. Customers using Shadow Explorer can easily create transportable shadow copies that can be moved between any SAN aware Windows Server within the enterprise or to a specific drive or array of drives within a server. In addition to the Windows File System, CommVault Shadow Explorer software can assist in managing Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The utility makes shadow copying Exchange Server and SQL Server 2000 data on Windows Server 2003 as easy as moving a file from one machine to another.

A few of the capabilities offered by the Shadow Explorer software are:

• Single interface for all vendor hardware shadow copy management
• Simple movement of volumes, application data sets
• Ability to mount and re-mount volumes using Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
• Minimal impact on servers and applications upon backup and shadow copy
• Simplify creation and management of existing Active Directory databases within Domain Controllers
• Can be run from any Windows Server 2003 machine or any Windows machine within an enterprise using Microsoft Terminal Services.