Rethink Virtual Machine Protection and Recovery with CommVault® Simpana® Software
Simpana® 9 software introduces a new, smarter way to think about data protection for the modern data center, giving your business the confidence to know that the data supporting your virtual machine environment is fully managed with little overhead. By assuring the same level of flexibility, recoverability and manageability that businesses have become accustomed to in the physical world, Simpana software encourages the aggressive adoption of a virtualization-based modern data center, even for business critical applications, thus providing maximum returns on investment and helping businesses gain critical operating and cost advantages.
Challenges with Protecting Virtual Machine Data
High Server Consolidation Causing High Data Density Per Host
Increased server consolidation, while desirable for optimal server utilization, leads to a physical host owning a lot more data than before. It is common in a virtualized environment for a physical host to own several TBs of data. As a result, there is not enough time to move all that data AND there are fewer server resources available to apply traditional backup methodologies.
VM Sprawl Causing Uncertainty in Data Protection
New virtual machines are created all the time, usually without the administrator's knowledge. As a result, a lot of time is wasted in manually ensuring VMs are being protected. Critical virtual machines could be at risk of not being protected at all!
Limited Recovery Options
Traditional backup methodologies create a backup copy once a day. In case of data loss, you are limited to recovering last night’s backup. In a fast paced environment recovering an old copy of data could mean the loss of critical business information. Businesses are often forced to keep data images for longer than necessary, only so that they can recover specific files in those VMs leading to wastage of resources. Recovery can often be time consuming and slow.
Manageability and Reporting
Users are often forced to use separate point products for physical and virtual environments, complicating the data protection method. Lack of 360 degree reporting hinders the ability to manage resources effectively.
Rethink Virtual Machine Protection with CommVault Simpana Software
CommVault Simpana 9 revolutionizes how business think about data protection and recovery for virtual environments and shatters constraints that traditional backup and recovery methods impose.
Protect Hundreds of Virtual Machines in Minutes with Minimal Production Impact
With Simpana software, you can be assured your entire environment is protected – regardless of the size. Leverage power of hardware snapshots built into modern storage arrays to create rapid fire, consistent and persistent recovery copies with no data movement and no agents inside the virtual machines. With this method, you can maintain multiple recovery points in a day. Simpana software supports most major storage array vendors, so there is no new hardware to buy. Test have demonstrated that this ground breaking method can protect 500 virtual machines in 17 minutes.
Secondary Copy for Data Recovery and Long Term Retention
Simpana software extends the performance and scalability benefits of hardware snapshot capability by selectively creating deduplication enabled copies on low cost disk. Backups deliver industry best performance and scalability by leveraging the modular node-based deduplication engine architecture, all iside the virtual platform. We leverage the vStorage API for Data Protection and Change Block Tracking for incremental backups of snapshot contents. And Simpana software delivers seamless integration with external cloud storage including deduplication and encryption of data in the cloud.
Automatic Discovery for Guaranteed Virtual Machine Protection
Don’t let Virtual Machine sprawl expose you to data loss! With Simpana software for virtual servers, you can automatically add new virtual machines to protection policy for guaranteed protection. Simpana software goes beyond simply discovering new VMs and applies newly discovered virtual machines into protection policies based on user defined rules. With multiple discovery rules, you gain the flexibility you need with no administrator intervention. Configure once and forget.
Multiple Recovery Options
With Simpana software for virtual servers, you can recover just what you need, just when you need it. You can do so quickly and easily without a lot of extra steps or wizards. You can recover either a full virtual machine image, individual volumes or even single files from inside a virtual machine, all from within the Simpana Console.
Integrated Reporting
With Simpana software for virtual servers, you can run detailed reports based on the contents of each virtual machine. You can run file-level analytics to see a detail view of virtual machine data. And, you can use our file analytics tools to automatically take action (for example, automatically archive files older than 90 days) to further optimize your virtual server environment. All these capabilities are built-in and do not impose any additional burden on your production environment.