White Paper

Data Protection for Cisco HyperFlex
with Commvault Software
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• Deep enterprise application
support: Some enterprise
applications need special care
whether or not they are virtualized.
Microsoft applications, databases,
and software-as-a-service (SaaS)
applications, for instance, all have
particular needs: for example, to
understand and appropriately interact
with distributed availability groups,
or log truncation, or enter backup
mode. Commvault has deep support
for most enterprise applications to
achieve exactly the right protection
for every application.
Large ROBO deployments
• Automation: Remote and branch
offices benefit even more from
automation because these data
centers often run with lights-out
management. Commvault software’s
advanced workflow and robust
reporting capabilities let you build
a reliable, simplified protection and
management system.
• Replication: Just because the data
center is remote doesn’t mean the
data archive has to be. Commvault
DASH Copy efficiently moves
deduplicated and compressed
changes to your main data center.
Commvault LiveSync automatically
keeps a disaster-recovery copy
ready for fast environment
restoration if things go wrong.
• Broad application support:
The Cisco HyperFlex platform
provides an excellent solution for
consolidating your remote-office
platforms, and Commvault believes
in leaving no system behind. You
may still have a standalone Oracle
database or an IBM AIX server at
that branch office. You can include
them in the Commvault backup
for complete control, visibility, and
protection of all your data and
application environments.
Development and test environments
• Production data for testing: Testing
works best if you can use production
data, but producing multiple, recent
copies of your production data
often takes too long and consumes
too many resources. Commvault
software can present live views of
data from the backup archive so you
can test against the most recent
backup data, without having to
perform a full restore operation.
• Self-service for an agile workflow:
The Commvault vWeb console
allows developers to create their own
virtual machines, VMware vSphere
snapshots, and backups and restore
from a backup without waiting for
support from the IT organization. The
IT administrators set policy, limits,
and virtual machine expiration times
to help ensure that no one abuses
the system. Everyone gets access to
the best resources, faster, for a more
productive development and testing
pipeline.
Virtual desktops
• Integrated protection: Typically,
VDI uses external storage for data.
Content Store
Cisco UCS C3260 M4
Media Server
Analyze Backup Replicate Archive Search
Commvault Software
Cisco UCS C240 M4
CommServe Server
Cisco HyperFlex HX
Data Platform
. . .
. . . .
Cisco HyperFlex System
VM VMVMVMVM VMVMVM
VMware ESXi Hypervisor VMware ESXi Hypervisor
Cisco UCS C220 M4
Virtual
Servers
Virtual
Desktops
ROBO
Dev/
Test
Figure 1 Cisco HyperFlex Systems Protection with Commvault Running on Cisco UCS