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CommCell Management Group Overview

A CommCell management group contains a CommServe server, one or more MediaAgents, and clients. The CommServe server coordinates operations and stores configuration data. MediaAgents provide data movement and manage storage libraries. Clients group Simpana agents that protect different data types on client computers, such as file systems and databases. Storage policies define rules for managing protected data across subclients and backups sets regardless of production server.

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CommCell Management Group Overview

A CommCell management group contains a CommServe server, one or more MediaAgents, and clients. The CommServe server coordinates operations and stores configuration data. MediaAgents provide data movement and manage storage libraries. Clients group Simpana agents that protect different data types on client computers, such as file systems and databases. Storage policies define rules for managing protected data across subclients and backups sets regardless of production server.

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CommCell Management Group Overview

A CommCell management group is the logical grouping of all Commvault


software components that protect, move, store, and manage the movement of
data and information. A CommCell group contains one CommServe server, one
or more MediaAgents, and one or more Clients.

CommCell Management Group

CommServe
The CommServe server is the central management component of the CommCell
group. It coordinates and executes all CommCell group operations, maintaining
Microsoft SQL Server databases that contain all configuration, security, and
operational history for the CommCell group. There can be only one CommServe
server in a CommCell group. The CommServe software can be installed in
physical, virtual, and clustered environments.
MediaAgent
The MediaAgent is the data transmission manager in the CommCell group. It
provides high-performance data movement and manages the data storage
libraries. The CommServe server coordinates MediaAgent tasks. For scalability,
there can be more than one MediaAgent in a CommCell. The MediaAgent
software can be installed in physical, virtual, and clustered environments.
Client

A client is a logical grouping of the Simpana software agents that facilitate the
protection, management, and movement of data associated with the client.
Agent
An agent is a Simpana software module that is installed on a client computer to
protect a specific type of data. Different agent software is available to manage
different data types on a client, such as Windows file system data, Oracle
databases, etc. Agent software can be installed in physical, virtual, and
clustered environments, and may be installed either on the computer or on a
proxy server.
CommCell Console

The CommCell Console is the central management user interface for managing
the CommCell group - monitoring and controlling active jobs, and viewing
events related to all activities. The CommCell Console allows centralized and
decentralized organizations to manage all data movement activities through a
single, common interface.

Commcell Logical Architecture

A CommCell management group consists of one CommServe server and any


number of MediaAgents and Clients. There is also a logical architecture to a
CommCell, which can be defined in two main areas
Production data being used by servers and computers in the enterprise, and
Protected data which has been backed up, archive, or replicated to storage
media.
Glossary

Client
A computer for which Commvault agents are protecting data.

Agent
A Commvault software component that is installed to protect a specific type of
data on a client, e.g., Windows File System, Oracle databases, etc.

Subclient
A logical container that identifies and manages specific production data (drives,
folders, databases, mailboxes) to be protected.
Backup Set
One or more logical groupings of subclients, which are the containers of all
of data managed by the agent. For some agents, this might be called an archive
set or replication set. For a database agent, the equivalent of a backup set is
generally a database instance.

Storage Policy
A logical data management entity with rules that define the lifecycle
management of the protected data in a subclient's content.

Logical Management of Production Data

Production data is managed using agents, which interface natively with the file
system or application and can be configured based on the specific functionality
of data being protected. Data within these agents is grouped into backup sets.
Within the backup set, one or more subclients can be used to map to specific
data.

Logical Management of Production Data

Logical Management of Protected Data


Simpana’s concept of data management utilizes a data protection strategy
based on logical policies. The flexibility gained from policy-driven data
protection and management is the ability to group data based on protection and
retention needs, rather than by the physical location of the data, which greatly
simplifies the organization and management of protected data.
In a CommCell group, subclients define the actual data that will be protected.
Subclients can contain an entire server, drive, folders, database, user
mailboxes, virtual machines, or even document repositories. The data defined in
these subclients is protected through backup, archive, or snapshot operations
into Simpana protected storage. Once in protected storage, the data from these
subclients can be independently managed regardless of what production server
they came from.
A storage policy manages subclient data based on business requirements, even
when the subclients' content resides on different servers in the CommCell. It
defines a specific set of rules to manage the associated data; which data will be
protected (which subclients); where it will reside (the data path and library);
how long it will be kept (retention settings); and other media management
options such as deduplication, compression, and encryption of the data in
protected storage. The first storage policy defines the primary copy of the
backed up data, which can be stored on local libraries for quick access.
Additional copies of the backed data can be automatically created from existing
copies already in the protected storage environment to other libraries and
locations for consolidation, auditing, business continuity.
Examples:
 A project may have different types of data that reside on numerous
servers and storage devices. Agents for each type of data are installed, and
subclientsare defined to access the data in all of its locations. All of
thesesubclientscan be associated with a single storage policy to manage the
business related data as a single entity.
 Financial and legal data from different servers or location can be
combined into a storage policy for compliance reasons. Databases can be
managed in a storage policy and sent to a disaster recovery location. User files
can be kept in an on-site copy for quick file recovery.

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