Features and enhancements that we want to highlight in this release are listed here.
March 15, 2025
Cloud Workload Protection
Adaptive Live Browse file-level restore
You can now perform a Live Browse recovery without having to select a preferred access node. Adaptive Live Browse accelerates recovery by autoconfiguring the best access node at runtime. This enhancement streamlines cloud operations by removing manual processes from file-level recovery.
Adaptive Live Browse is available during guest file recovery from Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Broadcom VMware Virtual Machines.
Amazon EBS volume attach restores now offer customization
You can now customize Amazon EBS volume type, encryption keys, throughput, and IOPS during an Amazon EBS volume restore. You can tune your recovered EBS volumes to meet your security, performance, and cost objectives. You can intelligently recover your instances and volumes with original settings or customize on a per-volume basis. True cyber resilience includes the ability to perform reliable cost-aware recovery testing, which custom EBS volume recovery delivers.
Enhancements to the Protection of Azure Object Storage and Azure Table Storage, and Azure Object Storage Discovery
In this release, we have made the following enhancements to the protection of Azure Object Storage and Azure Table Storage, as well as Azure Object Storage discovery:
- If a storage account no longer meets the specified discovery rules, it will be disabled from backup until it meets the discovery rules again.
- If a storage account is deleted in Azure, backup jobs will be disabled to avoid failures.
- When creating discovery rules, you can preview what will be included to ensure the rules are set correctly.
- Added more granular controls to filter individual tables with Azure Table Storage backups
- Fixed an issue that would mark synthetic fulls as failed if there was no data in the incremental jobs between synths.
Preserve Disk Name During Restore
Commvault Cloud will now preserve disk names when restoring Google Cloud VMs or persistent disks. Previously, the disk name was inherited from the source snapshot. Retaining the original disk name ensures that automated cloud operations continue to function seamlessly for restored VMs.
VM Conversion to AWS and Azure Now Supports Resource Tagging
You can now add, remove, update, and delete resource tags applied to compute instances created during multi-cloud VM conversion. Previously, there was no way for customers to apply resource tags during migration. Now, Amazon EC2 instances and Azure virtual machines can have resource tags customized during recovery, replication, and migration activities.This enables you to leverage your existing tag-based automated operations and security operations in cloud, ensuring efficient and secure cloud operations.
SaaS Applications and Active Directory
Active Directory Forest Recovery
Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition enables organizations to quickly recover from catastrophic ransomware attacks and irreversible forest corruption. Commvault Cloud orchestrates the full forest recovery of Active Directory, restoring domain controllers in parallel to minimize downtime and disruption to the business.
Domain controllers can be restored to new VMs to confirm any artifacts of ransomware are eliminated.
Critical AD hygiene steps—like seizing FSMO roles and adjusting the RID pool—are automatically handled at the appropriate points during the recovery to help ensure that the restored directory is free from corruption.
The runbook view gives you full control of the forest recovery plan and simplifies the task of regular disaster recovery testing.
The topology view visually illustrates the domains and domain controllers, enabling you to better understand your AD architecture and make informed decisions about the forest recovery process.
January 10, 2025
Cloud Workload Protection
Automated Amazon EBS and Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Orphaned Resource Cleanup
With this feature, you can automate the identification and deprecation of orphaned Amazon EBS snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Orphaned resources are outdated or unused recovery points held in your AWS accounts that are no longer required by your retention policies. You have the flexibility to automatically monitor and clean up orphaned resources or to perform manual inspection and cleanup.
Removing unused resources helps you reduce your overall monthly spend on Amazon EBS snapshots, resulting in continuous cost savings.
Change Block Tracking Support
The integration of Change Block Tracking (CBT) support with OCI will reduce the time needed to back up VMs. Instead of conducting full cyclic redundancy checks for each operation, CBT enables incremental backups to identify changes from the last previous backup, saving time and resources for the end customer.
Configuration enhancements for restoring VMs with extensions
The configuration enhancements for restoring VMs with extensions allow Azure Admins to easily restore VMs with their original extensions. This feature provides flexibility by allowing selective exclusion or reinstallation of extensions at a later time, improving the overall configuration experience for Azure Admins.
OCI Gov Cloud Support
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hypervisors now can be configured with Oracle US Government Cloud and now support image level data protection operations for VM workloads, specifically in Oracle US Government Cloud. This eliminates the need for file system installation and support, making it easier for customers to adopt Oracle US Government Cloud to protect their VMs and ensure data integrity.
Protect DynamoDB tables using S3 export method
DynamoDB tables can now be protected using the native S3 export method and restored from a point-in-time backup. This removes front-end DynamoDB costs and eliminates any performance impact to production workloads while performing the backups.
Support for Amazon RDS Point-In-Time Recovery using native automated snapshots
Commvault has enabled support for Amazon RDS snapshot backup using native automated snapshots to achieve point-in-time recovery (PITR). With this feature, admins can easily recover their Amazon RDS database to a specified PIT, providing a safeguard against accidental writes and deletes.
Support for Azure Managed Identities for Backup and Cloudburst
The feature enables Azure Backup Administrators to use Azure managed identities for secure authentication and access to Azure resources. By using managed identities, administrators can securely manage resource access without handling credentials directly, improving the security of their resources. Additionally, the feature automates credential rotation, reducing the need for manual intervention.
Support for specifying snapshot SKU in the VM group
This feature allows backup administrators to specify a default SKU for all VM snapshots created for a specific VM Group based on cost performance, so that they can ensure the snapshots use the appropriate storage type based on their requirements.
Commvault Cloud Platform
Simplified Data Retention with Days-Based Approach
The days-based retention simplifies data management by eliminating the need to consider cycles in data aging. This approach helps you retain data for appropriate duration with ease to align with your business retention requirements.
On Prem Protection
Automatically prune database backup logs while protecting PostgreSQL clusters
Optimize the performance of PostgreSQL database clusters by enabling automatic pruning of logs from the master server when the standby server is unavailable and a backup is performed. This helps to reclaim storage space and prevent disruptions.
Enable 1-Touch backup by default for Linux file servers
1-Touch backup will be enabled by default for Linux File Servers in both software and SaaS. This enables the clients to perform bare-metal recovery (BMR) when needed. When 1-Touch backup is enabled on Linux clients, the backup operation type changes from "Backup" to "1-Touch Backup."
Enable self-service recovery for Windows File Servers in SaaS
1-Touch for Windows enables bare-metal recovery (BMR) for Windows File Servers in Commvault Cloud SaaS. You can use 1-Touch recovery to recover a failed computer or to create a clone of a server.
Enable system state backup by default for Windows File Systems in SaaS
By default, new Windows File Servers in SaaS will have system state backup enabled, which backs up the system state data along with file system data during a full backup. This will mean they are prepared in the event bare-metal recovery (BMR) is required.
Improve MySQL database log backup support with disk caching
Enable frequent and efficient log backups of MySQL databases at scale using disk caching. This feature ensures enhanced security by encrypting and compressing logs during the backup process.
VMware Cloud Director 10.6 Support
The VMware Cloud Director 10.6 Support feature provides customers with the ability to use the Commvault plug-in to easily manage their virtual environments. This feature enables customers to efficiently perform operations and gives them greater control over their cloud infrastructure.
Partner Ecosystem
Integrate with Autotask PSA for MSPs - Service Desk & Alerting
This release will expand on our existing Autotask PSA integration by enabling ticket creation and alerting. Now that tickets can be generated from Commvault alerts and managed within Professional Services Automation systems (PSA), MSPs will be able to improve their workflow efficiency and minimize duplication of effort across environments.
Support for Sub-MSP Tier
Enables top-tier Aggregator MSPs to create and manage Sub-MSPs within the MSP Portal, enhancing partner management, scalability, and visibility while simplifying account creation and ensuring accurate cost and usage reporting.
Project Trident: Commvault Security Solutions
Manage credentials for DB2 database backups in Credential Vault
Commvault now supports DB2 database backup using Credential Vault. This allows users to securely store their database and server credentials in one centralized place. This simplifies the configuration and management of these credentials and also improves overall security by protecting sensitive information.
Recovery Orchestration
You can now set static IP addresses during AWS, Azure, and GCP Auto Recovery
You can configure static IP addresses for AWS, Azure, and GCP hypervisors. Static IP addresses offer control and flexibility over network configurations and allow you to achieve reliable and consistent disaster recovery.
SaaS Applications and Active Directory
Automatically Update Field Permissions for a Salesforce User
You can now automatically update the missing field permissions for a Salesforce user associated with the Commvault Cloud software. This feature eliminates the need for manually managing permissions and integrates seamlessly with your Salesforce org's permissions framework.
Seamless Browse, Backup and Restores for Salesforce with Error-Handling Enhancements
The following enhancements are implemented for Salesforce backup, restore, and record-level browse operations:
Default selection of all parent records during restore jobs.
Warning messages are displayed for potential issues and common errors related to metadata mismatches, batch quotas, and duplicate records.
December 13, 2024
Cloud Workload Protection
AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is now protected
Commvault now supports the protection for supported workloads in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, also known as ap-southeast-5. Commvault supports deployment to, integration with, and protection of the following AWS services: Amazon Aurora, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Organizations, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Security Token Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Systems Manager, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and VM Import/Export. You can get started today by deploying Commvault from the AWS Marketplace.
Exclude Disks in Protection and Recovery in Cloud Rewind Assembly
You can exclude certain disks from protection and recovery process. This can help reduce costs by not protecting certain disks or by recovering only selected disks. You can configure exclusions using disk selections or rules, offering flexibility and customization.
Restore Performance Improvements for Amazon RDS for MS-SQL
Improved restore performance of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server with efficient storage helps DBAs minimize downtime and meet strict recovery time objectives (RTO). This feature ensures database recovery operations that complete more quickly and removes the storage requirement on access nodes, thereby reducing the impact on mission-critical applications and enhancing overall system availability.
SaaS Applications and Active Directory
Backup and Google Workspace Gmail, Google Drive and Shared Drive
Commvault Cloud for Google Workspace allows Google Workspace administrators to easily back up and restore the business version of Gmail and Google Drive & Shared Drive. In the event of accidental or malicious data deletion, mail, and drive content can be easily recovered to the last known good state ensuring no valuable data is lost.
November 01, 2024
Cloud Workload Protection
Azure Table support in SaaS
You can securely protect and back up your Azure Tables using Commvault Cloud SaaS. This ensures that the data stored in Azure Tables is protected, reducing the risk of data loss or corruption, and providing easy data recovery options.
Protect AWS cloud databases using AWS-hosted infrastructure
This feature allows customers to protect the Amazon RDS (Native), Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon Redshift with the snapshot-based approach in a Commvault Cloud AWS-hosted infrastructure. This provides a simplified onboarding experience and additional cost savings since customers are not required to configure their backup gateway setup.
Snapshot-based protection of Amazon RDS for DB2 instances
Commvault now supports snapshot-based backup and restore of Amazon RDS for DB2 instances, allowing for quick restores in the event of a disaster.
Support for Azure Confidential VMs
Protect confidential virtual machines in Azure by adding support for platform managed keys (PMK). This feature enables the protection of Azure confidential VMs in cases where the OS disk is not encrypted or when it is encrypted with PMK. However, customer managed keys (CMK) encryption is not currently supported. Safeguarding data with PMK provides enhanced security for the end customer's sensitive information.
Support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs
Commvault now supports Trusted Launch VMs, adding a robust layer of security to protect your Azure virtual machines. This feature provides peace of mind with the integrity of your VMs during the launch process, safeguarding your critical data.
Support for Azure Ultra Disks and Premium SSDv2 Disks
Customers using Azure will now be able to easily back up and recover their high performance Ultra and SSDv2 disks through incremental snapshots. This feature ensures that important data stored in these disks can be securely saved and quickly restored when needed, providing peace of mind and minimizing the risk of data loss.
Support for Azure VM Extensions
This feature allows customers to use Azure VM extensions in conjunction with Commvault for improved functionality and security. Commvault retains the association between the VM and the extension, ensuring that it remains intact even after restoration, providing a seamless and reliable experience for end customers.
Commvault Cloud Platform
Appranix is now Cloud Rewind
Appranix has been officially rebranded to Cloud Rewind. The new name embodies Commvault's mission to help businesses seamlessly rewind and recover their complex cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
Multi-Geo Ring Switcher to map Ring ID to user friendly Geography Name
The Multi-Geo Ring Switcher or Selector feature has been simplified so multi-geo customers can access regions from another geography seamlessly. The Geo selector now shows the geography (geo) names along with Ring ID in the dropdown menu so customers can quickly switch to protect the workload in regions from another geography.
This enhances the overall user experience and ensures seamless navigation between different geographic locations.
New file system agent for macOS
You can now protect macOS devices configured as a file server.
Support for Additional Regions for Cloud Rewind (Appranix) Integration
Integration of Cloud Rewind (Appranix) with Commvault Cloud (SaaS) now supports additional regions within the following geographic areas: Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, and Australia & New Zealand.
Support for Amazon EKS using Commvault Cloud Infrastructure in AWS
Commvault Cloud SaaS has expanded its support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) using Commvault infrastructure hosted on AWS. This enhancement simplifies the EKS onboarding process, allowing customers to quickly and easily protect their applications running on Amazon EKS.
Partner Ecosystem
Integrate with Autotask PSA for MSPs
The Autotask PSA integration allows MSPs to streamline service management by automatically generating tickets from alerts, syncing CRM accounts, managing configuration items, and syncing billing information with ease and accuracy.
In Phase 1, we will enable syncing of accounts and CRM systems. This will improve efficiency, reduce manual work, and ensure seamless data flow between systems, ultimately enhancing the overall experience when MSPs managing their tenants using Commvault.
Integrate with Connectwise PSA - Service Desk and Alerting
This release will expand on our existing ConnectWise integration by enabling ticket creation and alerting. MSPs can generate tickets from Commvault alerts and manage them in their PSA. As a result, MSPs will be able to improve their workflow efficiency and reduce duplication of work across environments.
Recovery Orchestration
Perform on-demand cleanup of recovery target
You can perform on-demand cleanup of recovered workloads and also disable automatic cleanup after Control Plane deletion. This helps you undo or reset the recovery process and ensure that all resources created during the recovery process are removed.