Solutions Virtualization

Simpana® Software and Virtual Server Agent:
A Better Virtual Reality

With virtual machine auto-discovery, auto-inclusion, and auto-protection, embedded deduplication, block-level incremental backups, and the scalability to support thousands of virtual machines, Simpana virtual server backup software sets a new standard for virtualized environment management. It delivers best-in-class data protection with enhanced manageability and scalability that dramatically reduces operational overhead and impact on your virtual infrastructure.

Overcome Virtualization Management Challenges

With Simpana software, you can overcome the biggest challenges related to managing virtualized environments, including:

• Increased operational overhead caused by Virtual Machine (VM) sprawl
• Increased impact on virtual infrastructure due to data protection processes
• Balancing Short-term Recovery and Disaster Recovery (DR) objectives with long-term retention needs

The Simpana Virtual Server Agent (VSA) helps you balance your short-term recovery and disaster recovery requirements with long-term retention needs. It lets you centrally protect and manage data via a single virtual backup server console in both legacy and emerging infrastructures—so you can fully leverage new capabilities delivered by Microsoft and VMware. Built-in throttling and resiliency controls enable multi-streaming virtual server backups without having to create and maintain separate policies for virtual machines.

Third-Generation Capabilities

While many data management software providers are just now getting into the virtualization game, CommVault has already put three generations of thought and improvements into the virtualization-related capabilities of Simpana virtual server backup software. Here are just some of the third-generation virtualization-related benefits it delivers:

VMware and Microsoft virtual environments protected by CommVault

• Auto-discovery combined with auto-protection to help ensure virtual machines are fully protected with minimal administrator overhead.
• Integrated and certified with vStorage API for Data Protection to restore and backup a virtual server faster.
• Built-in resiliency controls, which distribute backup workload optimally across physical servers, datastores and networks, reducing the time to back up and providing unprecedented scalability and reliability.
• Flexible, centralized virtual machine protection, without having to install client software on individual virtual machines.
• Fast, incremental block-level virtual server backup, reducing transfer time and storage requirements.
• Granular recovery without the need to re-stage full VM image, reducing time to recovery.
• Multiple recovery options, including full VM, individual files, or logical partitions, to help meet all recovery and DR needs from a single pass backup.
• Embedded deduplication, eliminating redundant backup data and helping meet long-term retention needs with limited disk consumption.
• Single view and reporting.

CommVault Press Releases on Virtualization

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Going Beyond Basic VM Backup and Recovery with CommVault® Simpana® Software

Virtualization continues to sweep through enterprises leading to consolidated server workloads and improved utilization throughout the data center, remote offices and recovery sites. Administrators are struggling to adjust old backup ideas and methods to this environment that tends to grow, shift and change overnight. As the virtual infrastructure farm rolls out, so do new operational concerns. Backup window management, production impact, retention, data growth vs. storage usage, site recovery costs and data discovery implications can all complicate the process of optimally implementing virtualization.

CommVault® Simpana® software and the Universal Virtual Server Agent (VSA) offer a solution framework that spans an end-to-end data protection lifecycle to help meet recovery objectives and operational budget constraints with maximum efficiency. Simpana software transcends a simple backup job and touches all three dimensions—backup phase, retention phase and recovery phase— driving higher efficiency at each phase and reducing operational complexity.

Data Protection Lifecycle

Simpana software and the Universal Virtual Server Agent help organizations protect critical virtual server information assets, while reducing operational overhead, improving manageability and scalability, simplifying granular and DR recovery operations and enhancing backup storage utilization:

• Auto-discovery combined with auto-protection helps ensure virtual machines are fully protected with minimal administrator intervention.
• Leverage high resiliency and concurrency for scalable backup operations within shrinking backup windows. Built-in protection options distribute backup workload across physical servers, datastores and networks for optimal resource utilization.
• Fully integrated with vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) in VMware environments to take advantage of the latest improvements in the virtualization platform.
• Flexible, centralized virtual machine protection, without having to install client software on individual virtual machines.
• Utilize granular recovery or full VM recovery from single pass backup to meet Service Level Agreements.
• Optimized backup storage utilization through the use of innovative features, such as block-level incremental image level backup and embedded deduplication.