Newsletter June 15, 2014

New Features in Service Pack 7

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Contents: Backups:

PST Archiving .................................................................................................. 2 Simpana OnePass for Macintosh.................................................................... 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Support ............................................................... 2 SQL Transaction Log Backup without CommServe Connectivity.................... 3 Command Line Support for MySQL ................................................................ 3 Command Line Support for PostgreSQL ......................................................... 3

Deduplication: Deduplication Database (DDB) Resynchronization ........................................ 3 Performance Safeguards for Deduplication Database (DDB) ......................... 4

IntelliSnap: Additional Supported Arrays for IntelliSnap .................................................. 4

Mobile: Live Browse for Apple Devices ....................................................................... 4

Server: Recovering Aged Data Using Tape Catalog .................................................... 4 Physically Erasing Data from Spare Tape Media ............................................ 5

Virtualization: Virtual Machine Disk Conversion from VMware to Hyper-V ......................... 5 Live File Recovery with Enhanced Linux File System Support (VMware) ....... 6

Early Release Features: Block-Level Backup Support for File System Data .......................................... 8 Enterprise Metrics Reporting and Cloud Metrics Reporting .......................... 9 Custom Reporting ........................................................................................ 10 Data Analytics ............................................................................................... 11 Data Loss Prevention .................................................................................... 12 Deduplicated Data Verification .................................................................... 14 End-User Erase for Exchange Mailbox ......................................................... 14 Explorer Plug-In ............................................................................................ 14 Global Repository Cell (GRC) ........................................................................ 15 AS/400 (iSeries) Backup Support .................................................................. 15 Infinite Volume Backup Support Using CIFS and NFS ................................... 16 Log Monitoring from the CommCell Console ............................................... 16 Log Monitoring from the Web Console ........................................................ 17 Oracle Archiving ........................................................................................... 17 Privacy .......................................................................................................... 18 Exchange Mailbox Backup Quota ................................................................. 18 Exchange Mailbox Retention Tags ............................................................... 19 Sharing ......................................................................................................... 19 Support for SharePoint RBS ......................................................................... 19 Live Recovery for Virtual Machines (VMware) ............................................. 20 Manage Virtual Machines Using Explorer Plugin (VMware) ........................ 20 Virtual Machine Conversion (VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V) ..................... 20

Additional Information .............................................................................................. 21

Quick Links:

• New Features – SP7

• Updates and Service Packs

• Release Notes - SP7

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PST Archiving Microsoft Outlook Data Files, such as Personal Folder Table (PST) files may reside on a user's local computer, network shares, or both. The number and size of PST files can increase rapidly when users exchange emails and perform other tasks such as add calendar items, tasks and journal entries, etc. PST Archiving provides an enterprise solution for effectively managing PST files, whether on local workstations, shared locations, or both, by archiving them to secondary storage, and making them available to end-users from that location. A few of the features of PST Archiving are:

• Browse, search for, and restore emails from archived PST files. • Permanently delete PST files from their source location and keep just

the archived copies on secondary storage to meet compliance requirements.

• Collect PST files that are stored on laptops and desktops automatically by using the Laptop Backup feature.

• Detect who owns PST files based on files, laptops, or the user home folder on a network share.

• Reclaim space on secondary storage by aging specific messages based on their receipt time.

• Users can recover archived messages using Outlook Add-In, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Universal Recall Link, and the Web Console.

Setup Requirements • Prerequisites - Archiving Personal Storage Table (PSTs)

Recommendations • Prevent the creation and modification of PST files. • Detach the PST files from the default Outlook profile.

More Information • Overview - Archiving Personal Storage Table (PSTs)

Simpana OnePass for Macintosh Simpana OnePass for Macintosh File System is integrated with the File System Agent as a method to archive files which have been backed up. A Finder plug-in enables users to recall archived data right from the Finder.

More Information • Overview - Simpana OnePass for Macintosh File System

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Support The Microsoft SQL Server agent can now be installed on computers hosting Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Editions.

View and recover archived e-mails directly from

Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and the Web

Console.

Reduce the CommServe load and decrease the total

number of jobs running simultaneously by running

transaction log backups without CommServe

connectivity.

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More Information • System Requirements - Microsoft SQL Server iDataAgent

SQL Transaction Log Backup without CommServe Connectivity Run transaction log backups without CommServe connectivity to reduce the CommServe load and to decrease the total number of jobs running simultaneously.

More Information • Running Transaction Log Backups without CommServe Connectivity

Command Line Support for MySQL Perform instance and subclient configuration from the Command Line Interface using XML template files.

More Information • Command Line Interface - MySQL Agent

Command Line Support for PostgreSQL Perform instance and subclient from the Command Line Interface using XML template files.

More Information • Command Line Interface - PostgreSQL Agent

Deduplication Database (DDB) Resynchronization Use DDB Resynchronization to reconcile inconsistencies between the DDB and the CommServe database. The DDB is brought online and reverted to a reusable state from maintenance mode. DDB Resynchronization prevents sealing of the DDB after the CommServe Disaster Recovery (DR) restore, thus saving significant disk space on the disk library.

More Information • DDB Resynchronization

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Performance Safeguards for Deduplication Database (DDB) You will now receive DDB threshold events and alerts on slow performing DDBs in the CommCell. The performance of the DDB is measured by the Average Query and Insertion (QI) time threshold. The alerts are enabled by default and will be generated when the QI time of the DDB reaches 70%, 80%, 90% of the two milliseconds threshold.

More Information • Deduplication database reaching QI time threshold

Additional Supported Arrays for IntelliSnap IntelliSnap technology normalizes snapshot operations so they look the same and operate the same way regardless of application or storage platform. Increase hardware choice and extend the value of your storage investments by automating snapshots across the industry's widest selection of storage arrays without custom scripting for: Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NetApp, and Nimble Storage. Support for many more arrays has been added in Version 10. Huawei, Oracle ZFS, DataCore SANsymphony-V, and Fujitsu DX3 are some examples of the new array support.

More Information • Snapshot Management

Live Browse for Apple Devices Use the CommVault Edge mobile app to browse the entire contents of your computer: both backed up and non-backed up data.

More Information • Browsing Live Data (Live Browse)

Recovering Aged Data Using Tape Catalog Data loss due to accidental deletion or technical failure can negatively affect ongoing operations, requiring speedy data recovery. The preferred method is to recover data from a disaster recovery backup, but if one does not exist, you can use the Tape Catalog feature if the data was backed up to tape media. Using this feature, the tapes can be catalogued, and the jobs contained on it can be merged back into the database so that they are restorable.

Key Features • Retrieve Disaster Recovery (DR) backup jobs from tape media

Retrieve Disaster Recovery (DR) backup jobs from tape

media and recover data from a deleted entity.

Increase hardware choice and extend the value of

your storage investments by automating snapshots

across the industry's widest selection of storage arrays.

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Restore Disaster Recovery backup jobs available on media present in one CommServe using another CommServe or a freshly installed CommServe.

• Recover data from a deleted entity Recover data from the backup jobs associated with the deleted entity (client, backup set, storage policy, or copy) if the actual data is still available on a tape media.

• Restore data jobs from tape media from any CommCell

View tape origin (CommCell it belongs to) and tape contents using the catalog feature. Restore jobs on the tape to the CommServe database, using the merge operation.

Supported Platforms • Windows and Linux

Supported Agents • File System

More Information • Recovering Aged Data - Getting Started

Physically Erasing Data from Spare Tape Media You can now select to run a Full Erase operation to erase all data from the spare tape media. The Full Erase operation physically erases the data from the spare tape media, unlike the Quick Erase operation, where the data is erased logically by overwriting the OML (On-Media-Label).

More Information • Erase Spare Media

Virtual Machine Disk Conversion from VMware to Hyper-V As part of the process of restoring virtual machine disk files, you can convert disks to a new format:

• VMware virtual machine disks in the VMDK format can be converted to VHD or VHDX.

• Hyper-V disks in the VHDX format can be converted to VMDK. After converting a disk, you can attach it to an existing VM or use it to create a new VM. Disk conversion can be used to move data from one platform to another, or as the first step in migrating a virtual machine. Disk conversion is supported from full or incremental backups, for both Windows and Linux VMs and for disks using thin or thick disk provisioning.

Disk conversion can be used to move data from

one platform to another, or as the first step in migrating a virtual

machine.

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Virtual machines created from converted disks can be backed up and restored using the same processes as virtual machines created directly in VMware or Hyper-V. Disk conversion is not supported from differential backups, or for virtual machines with multiple snapshots.

Applicable Agents • Virtual Server Agent for VMware • Virtual Server Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V • IntelliSnap for VMware • IntelliSnap for Microsoft Hyper-V

Licenses • Virtual Server (for streaming backups) • Hardware Snapshot Enabler (for IntelliSnap)

More Information • For Virtual Server Agent for VMware, see Converting Virtual Machine

Disks. • For IntelliSnap for VMware, see Converting Virtual Machine Disks. • For Virtual Server Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V, see Converting Virtual

Machine Disks. • For IntelliSnap for Microsoft Hyper-V, see Converting Virtual Machine

Disks.

Live File Recovery with Enhanced Linux File System Support (VMware) Live File Recovery provides expanded file system support, including ext4, and enables live browse of backup data without requiring granular metadata collection during backups. This feature supports restores of files and folders from backups of Windows VMs and of Unix VMs that use ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS, or Btrfs file systems. Live File Recovery can also be used when reducing backup times is a priority. This is a tradeoff; using this feature reduces backup time but increases the time required to browse files and folders. To recover files or folders from a backup, you can enable backup data to be mounted as a temporary NFS datastore that can be used to browse and restore file and folders.

Applicable Agents • Virtual Server Agent for VMware • IntelliSnap for VMware

Licenses • Virtual Server (for streaming backups) • Hardware Snapshot Enabler (for IntelliSnap)

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Setup Requirements • You must deploy and use a Linux MediaAgent for File Recovery to

access the data in the backup. See Deploy a Virtual Machine for Linux File Restores.

• Identify the proxy ESX server to be used to mount the NFS datastore using the Advanced Options tab on the subclient properties.

• The ESX server used to mount the NFS datastore for the browse and restore must be able to resolve the Linux MediaAgent for File Recovery. To ensure connectivity, create a host file entry for the Linux MediaAgent for File Recovery on the ESX server.

More Information • Virtual Server Agent for VMware: Live File Recovery. • IntelliSnap for VMware: Live File Recovery. • Deploy a Virtual Machine for Linux File Restores. • Specify the Default MediaAgent for a Virtual Server Instance.

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Early Release Features Learn how the newest Simpana features will provide you with a business advantage. Explore these Early Release features for an advanced look at the very latest capabilities we are adding, and even submit feedback to help shape the feature. All of these features have already undergone thorough testing and will be generally available soon, but have not yet been officially released. For general information about Early Release features, see Early Release.

Block-Level Backup Support for File System Data Use block-level backups to back up physical disk blocks of file system data using native snaps or hardware snap engines. Block level backups offer better performance over file system based backups in environments that typically contain a large number of small files.

Key Features • Faster backups as only the physical disk blocks that contain the data

are backed up. • Better performance over disk-image based backups when performed

on a complete volume by reducing the scan time, particularly if the file system has a large number of small files.

• Block-level incremental backups run faster and back up lesser data when the file system has very large files.

• File system scan is optional. You can enable file system scan during backups if you want to view a list of backed up items or to browse or search for a particular file based on the file properties like file name and so on.

Applicable Agents • AIX File System • Linux File System

License • Server File System

Setup Requirements • MediaAgent and File System components must be installed on the client

computer. On AIX, QSnap must also be included. • Service Pack 7 or later must be installed for these components:

o CommServe o Clients and MediaAgents used to perform block-level backups

More Information • Block-Level Backup - Overview

Block level backups offer better performance over file

system-based backups in environments that typically contain a large number of

small files.

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Enterprise Metrics Reporting and Cloud Metrics Reporting Often, companies are forced to use disparate, third-party reporting tools in addition to data management software to track operations and cost. Simpana empowers you to access the information you need to make vital decisions and achieve operational excellence from a single console. Use Enterprise and Cloud Metrics Reporting to help deliver IT as a Service, plan infrastructure costs, and provide insight on operations. Monitor activity across all CommServe computers in your organization with a complete set of dynamic reports, including the new Worldwide Dashboard, Health Report, Activity Report, and Chargeback Report. Use scheduling and alerts to automate system checks and report delivery. Install your own Enterprise Metrics Reporting Server to host reports on Web Console, or allow us to host your reports on our secure Cloud Services Web site.

Key Features • Dashboard for the Worldwide and CommCell Level

Preview the most critical information at a glance, such as met and missed SLA, storage space, failed backup jobs, and performance statistics, gathered from all your CommCell computers and displayed in simple, customizable charts, graphs, and tables. For more information, see Worldwide Dashboard and CommCell Dashboard.

• Scheduling and E-mailing Reports

Schedule reports to automatically e-mail to vital consumers, such as managers and executives. For more information, see Schedule Reports.

• Alerts on Reports

Set alerts to notify you when CommCell computers reach a specific threshold, such as the maximum SLA percentage. Alerts can be configured as SNMP traps, e-mails, events in CommCell Console, and notifications in Windows Events Viewer. For more information, see Alert Notifications.

• Software Store

Download new reports from the Software Store as soon as they are available. For more information, see Download Reports from Software Store.

• Health Report

Use the Health Report to identify the clients and policies that need to be adjusted to maintain optimal performance for your CommCell computers. Information includes the status of backup operations, the latest installed versions of software, and disaster recovery settings.

Monitor activity across all CommServe computers in your organization with a complete set of dynamic

reports.

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For more information, see Health Report – Overview.

• Activity Report

Use the Activity Report to monitor current and historical data on the success of backup operations, strike counts, and frequent errors over the last week or the last year. For more information, see Activity Report – Overview.

• Chargeback Report

Track the cost of storage for your customers or internal departments. For more information, see Chargeback Report – Overview.

License • Advanced Reporting

Setup Requirements • Enable data collection for reports in the CommCell Console Control

Panel. • To host your own reports, install an Enterprise Metrics Reporting

Server.

Recommendations • Install the Enterprise Metrics Reporting Server on the same computer

as the CommServe software and the Web Server. • Set up both Cloud Metrics Reporting Server and Enterprise Metrics

Reporting Server in order to take advantage of all reporting features.

More Information • Enterprise Metrics Reporting • Cloud Metrics Reporting

Custom Reporting Build reports based on your organization’s unique needs. View reports that include the information you most want to see and share your reports with other users in your organization.

Key Features • Use multiple data sources

Include data from the CommServe database or the data in your organization's database, such as SQL, MySQL, and Oracle.

• Publish reports to Download Center

You can make reports that you build or download available to other users in your organization by publishing the reports to the Download Center on Web Console.

• Deploy reports for offline data collection

View reports that include the information you most

want to see and share your reports with other users in

your organization.

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If you host reports for multiple CommServe computers, you can collect report data from every CommServe computer connected to your Enterprise Metrics Reporting Server using a custom report query.

• Share reports with remote or offline users

If some of your users access the Web Console on a different Web Server, or on a local network instead of the Internet, then you can share reports with those users by exporting and importing report templates.

More Information • Custom Reporting • Building and Managing Custom Reports

Data Analytics Managing enterprise data storage is an increasingly difficult task. In many organizations, a significant amount of storage space is wasted on data that is outdated, redundant, or otherwise not essential to business. Not only does this data sprawl create a problem for backup administrators, but it also increases the organization’s risk for compliance-related issues.

Data Analytics enables you to collect information about the unstructured data residing on clients in your organization. By viewing this information in the Data Analytics Reports in the Web Console, you can identify the non-business essential data that are occupying your storage resources and take measures to reclaim valuable space and mitigate risk.

With the information provided by Data Analytics, you can:

• Identify outdated, large, or other non-business essential data residing

on clients. • Reduce the risk of issues caused by storing data beyond your

retention requirements. • Calculate the savings of moving data to more inexpensive, secondary

storage. • Export Data Analytics Reports in a variety of useful formats.

Key Features • File Analytics Report

Use the File Analytics Report to determine the overall status of the unstructured files residing on the clients your organization. You can also drill down and filter File Analytics Reports to locate individual files that should be archived or deleted. For more information, see Data Analytics - File Analytics Report.

• Email Analytics Report The Email Analytics Report displays information about the unstructured email data residing on email servers in your

Identify the non-essential data occupying your

storage resources and take measures to reclaim valuable space and

mitigate risk.

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organization. You can drill down and filter the Email Analytics Reports to locate individual mailboxes and email data that should be archived or deleted. For more information, see Data Analytics - Email Analytics Report.

• Analytics Workflow

The analytics workflow enables you to collect data from clients across multiple CommCell groups and create Data Analytics reports. The analytics workflow also enables you to analyze data on clients that do not have a Simpana agent installed using the System Discovery Tool. For more information, see Data Analytics - Running the Analytics Workflow.

Applicable Agents The following agents and data types are supported by Data Analytics: • All file system agents • Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Agent • File system data for Virtual Server Agent When running the analytics workflow, NAS Agents are supported in addition to the agents and data types above. However, the Macintosh File System Agent is not supported by the analytics workflow.

Setup Requirements To use Data Analytics, ensure that the following requirements are met: • Analytics Engine must be enabled on a MediaAgent that meets certain

requirements. • Web Server and Web Console must be deployed for users to access the

File and Email Analytics reports. • To use analytics workflow, the Workflow Engine must be deployed

Recommendations Data Analytics can be performed either as a job or a workflow. If you want to run analytics on a regular basis, we recommend you schedule to run Data Analytics as a job. If you want to obtain a one-time report of the data in your organization, we recommend you run Data Analytics as a workflow.

More Information • Data Analytics - Overview

Data Loss Prevention When remote access to business-critical data is essential, the unintentional loss or theft of a single laptop can put an entire organization at risk. With Data Loss Prevention (DLP), you can proactively secure access to business-critical data and prevent data leakage on the laptop clients in your CommCell group. In addition, you can:

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• Ensure compliance by protecting sensitive information such as intellectual property or customer-related data on endpoint devices.

• Add strong file-level encryption and access control to your important files.

• Secure common business-critical data by deploying DLP globally across multiple laptops.

• Enable end-users to secure personal files or folders on their laptops with one click.

Key Features • Periodic Document Encryption

With Periodic Document Encryption, you can prevent unauthorized access to business-critical data on your laptop clients. If your laptop is unintentionally lost, stolen, or offline for an extended period of time, your DLP secured files are automatically encrypted and secured with a user-defined passkey. For more information, see Periodic Document Encryption.

• Secure Erase

In the event that your laptop is lost or stolen, you can use Secure Erase to remotely delete data on the laptop and mitigate the risk of data leakage. You can either choose to erase specific files and folders, or erase all of the data on your laptop as a measure of last resort. For more information, see Secure Erase.

Applicable Agents • Microsoft Windows laptop clients.

Setup Requirements

To deploy Data Loss Prevention (DLP), ensure that the following requirements are met:

• Explorer Plug-In must be installed on your laptop clients. The Explorer Plug-In enables end-users to establish a DLP passkey and secure files directly from Windows Explorer.

• To allow end-users to remotely configure DLP settings, Web Console must be deployed.

Recommendations

We recommend that global Data Loss Prevention (DLP) settings are configured in the CommCell Console for common business-sensitive data residing on laptop clients.

More Information • For Administrators, see Data Loss Prevention (DLP) - Overview. • For End-users, see Data Loss Prevention: End User Getting Started.

Prevent unauthorized access to business-critical

data on your laptop clients.

Remotely delete data on lost or stolen laptops and mitigate the risk of data

leakage.

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Deduplicated Data Verification Deduplicated Data Verification is an efficient way to cross verify the unique data blocks on the deduplication database (DDB), disk and on the CommServe database. When using deduplicated data verification:

• You are ensuring that data is valid for a restore and an Auxiliary Copy operation.

• The processing time for data verification for all jobs is reduced because unique data blocks that are referred by multiple deduplicated backup jobs are read and verified only once.

More Information • Deduplication to Disk - Advanced - Verifying Deduplicated Data

End-User Erase for Exchange Mailbox The Exchange Mailbox End-User Erase feature allows users to browse stored emails, and then erase messages that they no longer need. For example, users might focus on erasing messages with attachments. Users can see how much space is available after the messages have been erased.

Setup Requirements • End-User Erase (traditional/feature license)

Recommendations • Before users can erase messages, you must create a storage policy

that uses the MediaAgent that you have dedicated to erasing data. • The End-User Erase feature is resource-intensive for the MediaAgent

host that runs it. • The MediaAgent host that is used for End-User Erase should be a

high-performing computer that is capable of being scaled. • The MediaAgent software must be the only Simpana component that

is running on that MediaAgent host.

More Information • Exchange Mailbox End-User Erase - Overview

Explorer Plug-In Explorer Plug-In is an add-on to Microsoft Windows Explorer that enables you to access the backed-up data from your system without restoring. Explorer Plug-In now supports many new operations and behaviors, including:

• Previewing archived documents directly in Windows Explorer's preview pane

• Browsing backed up data for your computers and VMs

Browse stored emails, and then erase messages that

you no longer need.

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• Restoring specific versions or the latest data • Downloading files by double-clicking them in browse view

More Information • Explorer Plug-in Overview

Global Repository Cell (GRC) Global Repository Cell (GRC) is a CommCell configured as a repository for jobs from other CommCell computers known as PodCells. The aim is to be able to perform restores on the GRC of jobs that were backed up on the PodCell, or to further create auxiliary copy of data locally, in case longer retention is required.

Key Features • Browse, Restore and Auxiliary copy jobs from other CommCell

computers

Since there is continuous metadata transferring between the PodCells and GRC, you can view available jobs for browse and restore that are on PodCell and, if the GRC has access to the backup data, you are able to perform cross machine restores or auxiliary copies of data to clients that are local to GRC. Restoring to the original clients is not possible as they belong to the PodCell.

• Standardized Configurations

GRC also allows pushing some configuration data like schedule policies, users and user groups, alert configurations, export locations back from the GRC to the PodCells. This standardizes configurations uniformly across the PodCells.

More Information • GRC - Overview

AS/400 (iSeries) Backup Support Use the file system agent to back up data and perform file level restores on iSeries clients. The agent provides unified protection and recovery for the file system data on iSeries clients using a proxy client. As all the data protection and recovery requests to the iSeries client pass through the proxy client, security for data present on the iSeries clients is ensured.

Applicable Agent • iSeries File System

License • Server File System

Setup Requirements • File System Agent installed on the Linux proxy client.

Perform cross machine restores or auxiliary copies of data to clients that are

local to GRC.

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• iSeries backup package installed on (CVINSTPKG.savf) on the AS/400 client.

More Information • Overview - iSeries File System

Infinite Volume Backup Support Using CIFS and NFS Infinite Volume Backup Support adds data protection and recovery support for NetApp infinite volume Vserver using the Windows File System Agent, to backup CIFS shares, or UNIX File System Agent, to backup NFS exports mounted on a given proxy machine. This feature overcomes the fact that NetApp infinite volume Vserver does not support NDMP backups.

Key Features • Tape Backup

The tape backup support uses the Windows File System Agent under NAS/Windows clients to back up UNC path, or the UNIX File System Agent under NAS/Unix clients to back up mounted NFS export. The backup job will walk the entire CIFS share or NFS export for each kind of backup to determine the files to protect.

• Snapshot Backup

The snapshot support uses the Windows File System Agent under NAS clients to back up UNC path or the UNIX File System Agent under NAS/Unix clients to back up mounted NFS export. The CIFS share/NFS export are used to look up the volume name on a file server to be snapped. The first full backup walks the entire CIFS share or NFS export to determine the files to catalog - subsequent backups including full, incremental, and differential backups will get only the changed file list from a file server without scanning the CIFS share or the NFS export.

More Information • Infinite Volume Backup Support Using CIFS and NFS

Log Monitoring from the CommCell Console Use the log and system monitoring feature to create policies and analyze log data from multiple clients in a CommCell. Filter log data, collected from the various log files, using criteria specific to your requirements, and use this information to monitor the state of your CommCell. For example, you can create a monitoring policy to notify you about backup job failures.

Key Features • Monitor log information from multiple sources; CommCell, Windows,

and UNIX log files.

Monitor log information from multiple sources:

CommCell, Windows, and UNIX log files.

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• Capture and filter log file data to quickly address future issues. • Create alerts to receive notifications when a specific log event occurs. • Monitor logs in real time or schedule a policy to run at a specified

period of time. • Customize data capture to include or exclude old or unmodified data. • Create user-defined templates to customize filtering attributes for

monitoring policies.

More Information • Monitoring Policy - Overview

Log Monitoring from the Web Console Content Indexing is now available for log files using monitoring policies. The log monitoring web console application provides a centralized user interface to search indexed log files. Search criteria are automatically saved and can be reused when required. The dashboard provides graphical and tabular representation of the saved searches. You can also use the web application to upload log files not previously included for indexing, and have them instantly available for search operations.

Key Features • Save search criteria for future reuse. • View saved and recent search results in tabular and graphical formats. • Upload log files not previously selected for content indexing and

make them immediately available for searching.

Setup Requirements To use this feature, the following components need to be installed:

• Web Console • Search Engine.

More Information Log Monitoring Dashboard Overview

Oracle Archiving Business and regulatory needs are driving Enterprises to store data longer in the production databases causing them to significantly grow. The increase in size leads to larger storage requirements, database performance issues and longer backup and recovery time. CommVault’s Oracle Database Archiving solution addresses these issues by securely archiving and indexing the data no longer accessed while providing seamless access of the archived data from production database. Among the many benefits provided:

• Database administrators define the archiving criteria to qualify un-accessed data for archiving.

Securely archive and index the data no longer

accessed and access archived data directly from the production database.

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• Provides flexibility to define virtual foreign keys in case a database doesn’t have constraints defined.

• Seamlessly query and retrieve archived data without restoring the data to the production database.

• Define individual retention times for each set of archived data. • Tools include archived data size prediction, previewing the archive

criteria and the data that will be archived.

Applicable Agents The Oracle Archiving solution is available with the Oracle Agent.

More Information • Oracle Database Archiving

Privacy Backing up sensitive information is critical, but once it is backed up, how do you stop unauthorized users from opening your files? Now you can use the Privacy feature to prevent users and administrators who are not client owners from seeing the data on your client.

More Information • Enabling Privacy

Exchange Mailbox Backup Quota The Exchange Mailbox Backup Quota feature lets administrators manage backup storage by setting limits at the mailbox level to prevent email messages from using too much storage space. Mailbox owners are notified by email when a mailbox is approaching or exceeds its quota limit, and administrators are sent a copy of the notifications. In addition, administrators can monitor mailbox backup storage usage by examining the Mailbox Quota Usage report, which provides mailbox backup storage use statistics.

Setup Requirements • OnePass Agent for Exchange must be installed and set up. Make sure

that the agent has completed at least one backup job. • Enterprise Metrics Reporting Server (EMRS) must be installed and set

up in order to view the Mailbox Quota Usage Report. • Version 10.0 Service Pack 7 or later must be installed for these

components: o CommServe host o Web Server o Metrics Reporting Server o OnePass for Exchange Mailbox Client

Manage backup storage by setting limits at the

mailbox level to prevent email messages from using

too much storage space.

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Recommendations To use Exchange Mailbox Backup Quota, you must:

• Enable usage data collection from CommServe instances, and related quota management functionality.

• Enable the Quota Management options so that they appear on the Subclient Properties (General) dialog box.

More Information • Exchange Mailbox Backup Quota - Overview

Exchange Mailbox Retention Tags Retention tags control how long emails are retained on the Exchange Server. Retention can be set at the message level based on your organization's compliance and retention policies. You can define retention tags and apply them to individual messages or entire folders within mailboxes. In addition, you can give users the ability to apply retention tags to the messages or folders. Retention tags can be imported into the CommServe database to define email retention on the secondary storage.

Setup Requirements • Retention tags are only supported for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Service Pack 1 or higher, and for Exchange 2013. • Both the Exchange Management Tools and Simpana OnePass for

Exchange Mailbox Agent must be installed on the client where you import and process the retention tags.

More Information • Retention Tags

Sharing Collaboration is how the best things happen. Stop sending email attachments and start inviting others to share your files and folders through the Web Console. People you share with can browse, download, and upload your files depending on the permissions you give them.

More Information • Sharing Files or Folders

Support for SharePoint RBS Simpana SharePoint Content Management manages bloated content databases in the SharePoint environment by storing Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in a configured BLOB storage location, while only metadata is stored in the content database. It uses SQL server Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)

Stop sending email attachments and start inviting others to share your files and folders

through the Web Console.

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technology and hierarchical storage management (HSM) to migrate rarely used files to lower-cost storage devices.

Applicable Agents • SharePoint Server Agent

Setup Requirement • Simpana SharePoint Management Deployment Prerequisites

More Information • Simpana SharePoint Content Management - Overview

Live Recovery for Virtual Machines (VMware) The Live Recovery feature enables virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and powered on from a backup without waiting for a full restore of the VM. This feature can be used to recover a VM that has failed and needs to be placed back in production quickly, or to validate that a backup can be used in a disaster recovery scenario.

More Information • Using Live Recovery for VMs

Manage Virtual Machines Using Explorer Plugin (VMware) End users on Windows machines can use the Windows Explorer Plugin to create new virtual machines (VMs), manage VMs, and restore files or full VMs from backups.

More Information • Manage Virtual Machines Using Explorer Plugin

Virtual Machine Conversion (VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V) You can use the Convert to Hyper-V VM option to create a new Hyper-V virtual machine from a backup of a full VMware virtual machine. This feature enables you to duplicate a VMware virtual machine for the Hyper-V environment, or to migrate a VM from VMware to Hyper-V.

More Information

• Virtual Machine Conversion (VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V)

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Additional Information

Major Service Pack Releases (SP1, SP2, etc.) Major service packs are released in a 90-day cycle and may contain hotfixes and updates, as well as a limited number of customer requested design changes or features. Major service packs are broadly distributed and undergo full regression testing prior to release. We recommend that you standardize your enterprise on major service packs, as any critical hotfixes can only be applied to major service packs. Critical hotfixes address issues that may incur major disruptions to operations, or potential loss of data.

Upcoming Service Pack Releases • Service Pack 8 September 15 • Service Pack 9 December 15

More Information • Updates and Service Packs - Overview • Release Notes - Service Pack 7

Trademark Acknowledgment CommVault, CommVault and logo, the “CV” logo, CommVault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, Simpana, CommVault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, SnapProtect, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of CommVault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice. Products in Germany are not distributed using the “QNet” brand.

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