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| Brief about this backup software ? |
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| Commvault is new wave form of backup which introduced deduplication at it’s early stage and it’s like normal backup software but most people used this in conjuction with rman backup. |
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| Brief the benefits of commvault backup with Other Backup Softwares like Netbackup, Netvault, networker etc. |
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| Commvault offers fetures like most of the other backup software provides. one special we can say like when using along with RMAN backup. it will create script by itself and the script is flexible even when the oracle environment is changed which provides continues data protection |
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| For Implementing this software, could you please tell basic requirements. |
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| Main requirement is for commcell server (commserve) , it needs windows server OS since the it uses MS -SQL as it’s internel database. all other spec based on each commvault version we use. for. eg. for commvault 10 we need windows 2008 R2 as it’s commserve |
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| Is there any difference in commvault deduplication process when compared with netbackup,emc etc ? |
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| Two types of dudplication it provides client based and media agent based |
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| Why we need to suggest cust to go for commvault?can u give Few strong points on this software? |
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| It is well acclaimed for it’s flexible RMAN script it uses along with oracle. unlike other backup software we don’t have t change or modfiy the script when oracle environment is (like version upgrade)changed |
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| Features of this backup? |
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| while considering newest version it has almost all features like other software like deduplication, CDR etc.. |
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| Features and terminologies used in Commvault backup? |
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| It uses the terminlogy commserve for the main server which controls the backup and main the meta data. and media agent term is used for what we called a media server in other backup software , provides tape drives in disk space for storing data. |
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| Even other backup software like netbackup we have intelligent oracle policy which creates RMAN script automatically, can u pls brief how commvault is different in this? |
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| This features has been in version 8 onwards , well before other software has this feature. |
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| With respect to dedup, do it perform dedup on Storage side or Client side. |
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| On client side and on media agent side as well |
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| Can you provide basic architecture of this software ? |
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| It has one main server which control job, security and meata data and it’s called commserve, then one media agent which is for writing or protecting data comes from the client . and finally client where the data resides. three tier architecture like other software. only one difference main server will run only on windows server |
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| Only RMAN flexible scripting is the strong obejctive/point, as compared to others Netapp and EMC.. |
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| No but this was the major one when this software was first introduced. |
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| Netbackup has introduced new feature names oracle intelligent policy, where in we don’t want do any RMAN script modification? how can u compare this feature with NetBackup? As other backup software does same work, how to tell cust as this is strong point to go commvault? |
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| yes it was the strong point on version 8 along with ded duplication. now the version 10 offers features like smart cliet group vCloud integration CommVault Edge partitioned DeDuplication database CDR |
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| Any strong considerations while performing version upgrades in Commvault? |
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| MS-SQL database compactibility with current OS needs to checked before upgrading the commvault upgradation. commvault provides test upgrdade for the MS-SQL part before do the actual upgradation |
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| Commvault is supported for VM image level (vadp ) backup? |
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| Yes |
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| Does it support Unix clients backup as well? |
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| Yes |
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| Is this backup software comfortable with the Hypervisor like ESX, VIO, etc..? |
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| Yes. it offeres many features with virtaulization |
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| What about commvault licenses? |
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| Commvault uses capacity based license. |
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| For SAN Infra, How can we achieve with this Backup Software? For Example One Master, One DB Client. TL has been zoned with master & Client via FC. |
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| like any other three tier backup software, SAN infra will be like TL can be zoned with commserve and media agent (db client). |
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| We have seen RMAN Script Flexibility in Symantec Backup Exec Software, In BE we don’t want to write any script, just we need to integrate with DB Credentials. If any version upgrade also it will take automatic. Could you please elaborate more on the Commvault RMAN Backup? |
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| Commvault does the same and when we need to modify the script, we have option to add additonal commands on the script. This is required when customer want to add any specific line in addition to the automated scrit. this available on verison 9 onwards |
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| How to restore the commserver [master server] in case it crashes? |
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| Need to re install the commserve software and restore the sql backup (like catalog backup) |
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| Bare Machine Recovery will it be possible in Commvault? If yes, how can we achieve? License dependencies if any? |
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| Bare metal restoration as it’s full fledged form os not possible now. |
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| What is the backup flow in commvault and the vault options available? |
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| backup flow is similar to other backup software. from data flow from client to media agent and then to tape drive. and index of the data stored on media agent |
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| For NDMP infra, How about direct & Remote NDMP as like other backup softwares or any changes? |
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| AS NDMP is a standard protocol there will not be any difference in the infra. |
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| For master Server, One Client & TL Infra, could you please tell me how many licenses required? |
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| Apart from capacity based license, it has license for media agents |
