Features and enhancements that we want to highlight in this release are listed here.
March 15, 2025
Commvault Cloud Platform
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.
February 10, 2025
ThreatWise
Appliance hardening
For optimal security compliance, Threatwise Appliances have been hardened to adhere to the industry-leading CIS Level 1 Benchmark (CIS Benchmark for Debian GNU/Linux, tested with CIS Compliance Tool, Benchmark V2.0.0).
To ensure essential software access and proper functioning, the following benchmark rules are currently considered not relevant for the Threatwise Appliance. All other benchmark rules are met.
1.1.2.1.1, 1.1.2.1.2, 1.1.2.1.3, 1.1.2.1.4, 1.1.2.2.4, 1.1.2.3.2, 1.1.2.3.3, 1.1.2.4.2, 1.1.2.4.3, 1.1.2.5.2, 1.1.2.5.3, 1.1.2.5.4, 1.1.2.6.2, 1.1.2.6.3, 1.1.2.6.4, 1.1.2.7.2, 1.1.2.7.3, 1.1.2.7.4, 1.4.1, 2.1.13, 2.1.22, 4.3.2.1, 4.3.2.2, 5.4.1.1, 5.4.1.5, 5.4.2.6, 5.4.2.7, 5.4.2.8, 5.4.3.3, 6.1.2, 6.2.1.2.1, 6.2.2.1, 7.1.11, 7.1.13, 7.2.9
Simplified user role configuration
For easier and more effective access control, permission configuration for custom user roles is now optimized. In addition, non-configurable authorization (specifically: Appliance globality, user administration, and role configuration) remains unique to preconfigured roles as relevant and is no longer replicated along with configurable permissions.
Note: Custom roles created in version 8.0 that have a permission now merged with others will now have the full, merged permission.
Note: Custom roles created in version 8.0 with permissions replicated from preconfigured roles will no longer be authorized for non-configurable items as above.
Threatwise integration with Commvault backup / SOAR
For increased cyber resilience, you can now enable more focused indicators of attack (IoAs) by integrating TSOC with your Commvault backup environment and your organizational SOAR solution. The SOAR system will be alerted upon Threatwise trap events as correlated with known organizational assets in the relevant trap's subnet and their services.
These focused alerts will provide your organization with more reliable indicators, to potentially trigger remedial actions such as increasing backup frequency.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
September 06, 2024
Cloud Workload Protection
Azure Express Configuration
Now, you can simplify the onboarding process for configuring an Azure virtual machine workload. Sign into your Azure billing account using the Express Configuration wizard and automatically complete all necessary provisioning steps. This seamless experience helps reduce configuration errors and frustration with performing configuration steps in multiple portals.
Commvault Cloud with Premium Microsoft 365 Backup Storage
Microsoft 365 Backup Storage delivers a high-speed, snapshot-like, in-place backup that addresses mass recovery scenarios, such as ransomware. Now live, this solution integrates with Commvault's traditional GRAPH API-based M365 backup to provide a seamless experience.
Support for Microsoft Planner in Teams
Microsoft Planner is supported in Teams, allowing you to manage your tasks, collaborate with team members, and stay organized all within the Teams interface. Commvault Cloud can back up the Planner tab within the Teams interface alongside Team data with this update.
Commvault Cloud Platform
Appranix Integration with Commvault Cloud
Appranix has been integrated with Commvault Cloud to provide you with a seamless and efficient data management experience. This integration allows you to easily back up, restore, and protect data using Commvault's powerful capabilities while leveraging Appranix's next-generation cloud-native rebuild capabilities to reduce the time to rebuild and recover your cloud environments from days or weeks to hours or minutes.
Integration available in US & Canada. Additional regions coming soon
Back Up Azure Blob and Azure Files Using Backup Gateways
Deploy your own backup gateway to protect Azure Blob, ADLS, and Azure Files in cases where Commvault Cloud SaaS infrastructure is not available or cannot be used. This provides you with the flexibility to control your data plane and use private endpoints or support additional regions.
Self-Service Azure Network Firewall Configuration for Azure Workloads
Commvault Cloud now provides support for whitelisting specific Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) for Azure workloads and Azure Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) through the Enable access to the VNet firewall rule option. When this option is enabled, users can obtain Vnet information for whitelisting and skip opening ticket with Commvault support.
Single VM SKU to Replace Tiered VM SKUs
The previous tiered Commvault Cloud SaaS VM SKUs have been replaced with one that includes all capabilities, such as file systems and databases. This change simplifies the purchasing process, eliminates the need for sizing exercises, and prevents confusion about the expected behavior of different tiers.
Partner Ecosystem
Business Dashboard for MSP Portal
The enhanced MSP Portal now provides an intuitive dashboard with key usage and cost data. Users will benefit from a single glance view of detailed cost, usage information, and insightful growth trends for managed accounts, elevating business operation monitoring capabilities.
ConnectWise PSA Integration for MSPs [Available early October]
The ConnectWise PSA integration includes basic CRM functions, including account creation and account sync between Connectwise PSA and the Commvault MSP Portal.
MSP Monitoring Dashboards [Late September Release]
The first phase of the technical monitoring dashboard offers MSPs the ability to view their customers within the Command Center in aggregated viewpoints. This helps prioritize clients and make informed decisions on which clients need attention. In addition to the summary views, MSPs can view data from tenant-centric viewpoints.
MSP Portal Tenant Account Data Deletion
MSP Portal Tenant Account Data Deletion allows Managed Service Providers to seamlessly delete customer accounts without having to contact Customer Support, improving the overall customer experience and reducing compliance risks.
Recovery Orchestration
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery Integration with Palo Alto XSOAR [Available late September]
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery with Palo Alto XSOAR solution allows you to manage recovery groups and automate response and recovery actions seamlessly. You can create recovery groups, add workloads to groups, set recovery points, and change recovery targets, all within XSOAR. Additionally, anomalies detected in the Cleanroom recovery solution trigger events in XSOAR, enhancing overall security response and incident management. Coming late September.
Repave VMs Using “Golden Image”
Cleanroom Recovery of VMs using a Golden Image enables you to use templates (both public marketplace and private custom templates) to create the Azure VM in the cleanroom before restoring data to the VM. This simplifies and accelerates the recovery process and allows you to recover applications from cyberattacks to a known good state.
Support for Nutanix AHV Source VMs
Nutanix AHV VMs are supported for recovery in Cleanroom Recovery. They are automatically converted and recovered into the designated cleanroom target.
SaaS Applications and Active Directory
Deprecation of Wiki support in Teams
For existing tenants who previously have backed up Wiki within Teams, you can restore the Wiki in HTML format within the Files tab of the same team or a different team.
Restore Mailboxes and OneDrive Users using Active Directory Groups
M365 Restore by Active Directory Group allows you to restore the most recent data set for many users as a group. This feature streamlines the restoration process by providing a mechanism for logical groupings of users to be restored together