Commvault Announces Support of Red Hat Virtualisation 4 With Commvault Software

Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, has announced support for Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine powered virtualisation platform, Red Hat Virtualisation 4. Through this integration, customers can implement a unified data protection strategy for workloads running on Red Hat Virtualisation 4 for a cloud centric environment with greater virtual server data protection and file level restorability from Commvault’s next generation software.

Red Hat Virtualisation 4, the newest release from Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, helps address the increasing costs and complexities of proprietary virtualisation solutions by providing a fully-open, high-performance, more secure and centralised management platform for both Linux- and Windows-based workloads. Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization 4 is designed to more easily integrate with existing IT investments while providing a foundation for emerging technology deployments, including containerized and cloud-native applications.

With existing support for Red Hat Virtualisation 3.6, Commvault’s expanded integration and support for Red Hat Virtualisation 4 gives customers increased flexibility to manage data and workloads across the range of traditional, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Through Commvault’s Data Platform, customers – using a single solution – can now better protect data and workloads across one the industry’s broadest range of hypervisor coverage, which includes Red Hat Virtualisation, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). In addition, these workloads can be better protected as they move from hypervisors to the public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.

“We are thrilled to be launching Red Hat Virtualization 4 with greater virtual data protection and file level restorability from Commvault. Through our integration with Commvault, customers can adopt virtual workload protection strategies that give them flexibility and scalability to be more fluid in today’s highly disrupted, fast-paced global business environment.”

– Scott Herold, Product Manager, Virtualization Business, Red Hat Inc.

A sponsor at Commvault’s inaugural customer conference, Commvault GO 2016, to be held Oct. 3-5 in Orlando, Fla., Red Hat will be highlighting the benefits of Red Hat Virtualization and its recent OpenStack developments at the show.

 “Modern enterprises today are embracing open source virtualization strategies that give their teams the upper hand in workload customization and freedom while maximizing their existing hardware investments to run workloads more efficiently. Through our support of Red Hat Virtualization, we are expanding our partnership with an industry leader in open source solutions to give organizations a more efficient and effective infrastructure by providing greater virtual server data protection and file level restorability from Commvault’s award-winning software.”

– Brian Allison, Vice President of Worldwide Alliances, Commvault.

Commvault’s support of Red Hat Virtualization includes the following features and benefits:

• Integrates with the Red Hat Virtualization Manager and uses native APIs to perform all necessary functions.
• Offers the ability to perform complete VM image backups without disruption of the running workloads.
• Protection operations are policy driven and leverage an auto discovery mechanism that intelligently maps the right VMs to the correct policy.
• Protection operations automatically and dynamically distribute the load across the KVM hosts. Backup proxies (which are VMs themselves) can more easily scale as needed, and as an aggregate are able to intelligently allocate streams to process VMs in a more efficient manner.
• Client side deduplication enables customers to reduce the data transfer to the Commvault backup library, helping to expedite the backup process and reduce impact to networks and the space required for virtual machine backup data copies which can be stored to disk, tape, or a cloud library.
• Commvault’s hot-add methodology for protecting virtual machines makes it easier for customers to deploy and to scale-out while still being centrally managed through a single operational console.
• There are no explicit limits on the size of backups, number of virtual machines, or size of virtual machines that can be backed up.

Red Hat Virtualization 4 is available as a standalone offering, as an integrated offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and as part of the Red Hat Cloud Suite comprehensive solution. Existing subscribers can upgrade to version Red Hat Virtualization 4 through the Red Hat Customer Portal. Commvault support for Red Hat Virtualization 3.6 is already available. Support for version 4 is planned for Q2 FY 17.

About Commvault GO 2016

Commvault GO 2016 provides attendees the opportunity to participate in more than 45 breakout sessions and hands-on labs, while experiencing an agenda of premier keynote speakers, including Gartner’s Dave Russell; technology evangelist Robert Scoble; Microsoft’s Steve Guggenheimer; and Mythbuster’s Adam Savage. Attendees will learn best practices for today’s modern data center, the move to the cloud, backup, application recovery, and data management, all while networking with peers, industry analysts, Commvault experts and leading partners in the Commvault ecosystem. To be held on Oct 3-5 at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Fla., the event provides no shortage of opportunities for networking with peers and face-to-face meetings with some of the most influential figures in the data protection and information management industry.

About Commvault

Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third-party influencers for its technology vision, innovation and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on-premises, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,000 highly skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com.