CommVault: Solutions: Microsoft SharePoint

CommVault Solutions — Microsoft SharePoint

Overview

Information is a valuable corporate asset. Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies improve your access to information with portal, document management and collaboration capabilities. As your business relies more on SharePoint, it becomes critical to manage the documents and files in SharePoint portals. Your administrators need a reliable data management strategy for SharePoint.

SharePoint Data Management Requirements At-A-Glance

CommVault® software covers the spectrum of what you need to manage SharePoint data, from stand-alone SharePoint systems, to small and large SharePoint farms, to fast disaster recovery.

SharePoint Components

CommVault® Capabilities Performed from the Unified Console

Stand-Alone SharePoint Portal

Windows File System
SharePoint Database
SharePoint Documents along with other objects and items

Back up
Content Index
Replicate — Remote
Recover
Disaster Recovery
Report

SharePoint Server Farm

Windows File Systems
SharePoint Database
SharePoint Documents along with other objects and items
SQL Server
Active Directory

Back up
Content Index
Replicate — Remote
Snapshot (SQL Server) — Local
Recover
Disaster Recovery
Report

SharePoint Disaster Recovery Management

Backup copies
Replication copies
Snapshot copies
Windows System State disaster recovery copies

Set Storage Policies
Encrypt
Compress
Browse
Search
Recover
AUX Copy
Track Removable Media
Report

CommVault® Singular Information Management® Solution for SharePoint

CommVault provides a comprehensive suite of software for managing SharePoint data across all SharePoint components, data types and data management copies. You can use any of these capabilities on a stand-alone basis. You can also use them in combination to obtain compounded benefits of running a Singular Information Management® environment—all managed from a Unified Console.

SharePoint Challenge

CommVault® Offering

Data Protection of SharePoint

Document-level backup and restore, including form and picture libraries

CommVault Galaxy® Backup & Recovery software with iDataAgents (iDAs) for SharePoint protects documents and files residing in SharePoint Portal repositories. Galaxy software provides reliable and easy-to-manage data protection of all SharePoint objects, including documents, category folders and document libraries. Document, form and picture libraries are protected, including documents and items in the forms folder, user-defined columns, lists, and alerts associated with documents and list items.

Recover individual documents and objects with attributes intact directly to the production SharePoint environment in a one-step process that avoids the requirement for a recovery server.

CommVault Galaxy software also protects and restores the entire SharePoint server and Windows platform environment and SQL Server systems, and provides object-level Active Directory protection. This coordinated protection and recovery makes it easy to manage SharePoint.

Database backup and restore

Windows File System, including files critical to SharePoint: root directories, custom Web part assemblies, custom templates, IIS and IIS root directories, and add-in software

Windows platform protection, including System State recovery

SQL Server backup and restore, including transaction log management

Active Directory Domain Controller protection

Archive of SharePoint

Search on the content of protected SharePoint documents and other objects and items

Content Indexing provides rich search and discovery by any word in the document. This is the first step in making SharePoint documents along with other objects and items more efficiently discoverable.

Replication of SharePoint

Move data from remote SharePoint servers to central locations for data protection

Continuous Data Replicator provides host-based, asynchronous Windows replication of any Windows data, including SharePoint. Unique SQL Server-consistent recovery points ensure that the replicated database is coherent, and that it usable for backup and restore at the central site.

Disaster recovery of SharePoint data that is up-to-the-moment of a site disaster

Dramatically improve RPO/RTO service levels for protecting and recovering the SQL Server database

Quick Recovery manages array-based snapshots on a SAN to create SQL Server recovery volumes, and to manage point-in-time recoveries.

Use a snapshot as the basis for creating a CommVault Galaxy backup copy of SQL Server

Recovery Director automates the steps for using a snapshot recovery volume created with QuickRecovery, for the purpose of making an SQL Server backup copy.

Resource Management of SharePoint

Monitor and manage the amount of primary disk space being consumed by SharePoint

Storage Manager collects data from production SharePoint servers and provides a separate reporting console so that you can analyze the use of primary disk by SharePoint.

Monitor and manage the amount of disk space being consumed by archives, backup copies and replication copies

CommNet Service Manager builds on the extensive data collection and reporting already built into other CommVault products, to give you a complete view of the use of secondary storage, including backup, archive and replication data copies. This can be helpful for capacity planning and global policy management.