Commvault Supports Red Hat Virtualization 4

Commvault Systems, Inc. announced support for Red Hat, Inc.‘s Kernel-based VM powered virtualization platform, Red Hat Virtualization 4.

Through this integration, customers can implement a unified data protection strategy for workloads running on Virtualization 4 for a cloud centric environment with greater virtual server data protection and file level restorability from Commvault’s next generation software.

Virtualization 4, the newest release from Red Hat helps address the increasing costs and complexities of proprietary virtualization solutions by providing an open, more secure and centralized management platform for both Linux- and Windows-based workloads. Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 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 Virtualization 3.6, Commvault’s expanded integration and support for Virtualization 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 better protect data and workloads across a range of hypervisor coverage, which includes Red Hat Virtualization, VMware, 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 Azure and AWS.

“We are thrilled to be launching Red Hat Virtualization 4 with greater virtual data protection and file level restorability from Commvault,” said Scott Herold, product manager, virtualization business, Red Hat. “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.“

A sponsor at Commvault’s inaugural customer conference, Commvault GO 2016, to be held October 3-5 in Orlando, FL, 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,” said Brian Allison, VP of WW alliances, Commvault. “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.“

Commvault’s support of Red Hat Virtualization includes 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 maps the right VMs to the correct policy.
• Protection operations 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 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 VM backup data copies which can be stored to disk, tape, or a cloud library.
• Commvault’s hot-add methodology for protecting VMs 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 VMs, or size of VMs that can be backed up.
  

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 solution.

Existing subscribers can upgrade to version Virtualization 4 through the Red Hat Customer Portal. Commvault support for Virtualization 3.6 is available.

Support for version 4 is planned for Q2 FY 17.