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CommVault® Express 8.0 Backup & Recovery

Delivering reliability, speed and scalability

Business Challenges With CommVault software’s capability to natively

write to disk and automatically migrate to tape,
Managing the ever-growing mountain of digital
many new CommVault users introduce disk into
data is one of the greatest challenges facing IT
their backup environment. By staging backups to
departments today. Many organizations find
disk first, managing tape complexity becomes less
themselves facing longer backup windows and
of the equation thereby increasing backup reliability.
typically unreliable backups. Legacy backup
architectures just strain the equation further
as managing older, less capable software only
Solving Backup & Recovery
increases the complexity. CommVault®
Performance
Express software can help solve both of
The average new CommVault customer sees
these problems, while also delivering a path
a 52% reduction in backup time. This has
to future data management without forcing
everything to do with CommVault’s unique
a “rip and replace” upgrade.
product architecture which writes data in
CommVault Express software delivers
discrete segments as it is written to disk or
enterprise-class backup & recovery features
tape. By writing segments CommVault®
in a streamlined package designed for the
software is able to efficiently take advantage of
small and mid-sized organization.
the random read/write nature of disk, whereas
legacy backup software must write large backup
files to disk as if the disk were a tape device.
Solving Backup & Recovery Reliability
Unlike other backup software that can only
The average new CommVault customer sees
send one sequential backup stream per client,
a 19% increase in backup reliability. Why such
CommVault client agents use multiple writers to
a dramatic improvement? CommVault® software
send several backup streams to a disk target. This
is a next generation product with patented
configurable setting allows you to greatly increase
technology to protect, move and restore data.
backup throughput and lower backup times.
Data Classification for Faster Backups Indexing Data for Faster Recovery

CommVault® client agents and Exchange agents come As backup data is written to disk or tape, CommVault®
with data classification functionality—delivering much software intelligently indexes the data segments,
faster backups by knowing which files have changed providing the ability to quickly recover the appropriate
since the last backup. Traditional backup software segment on demand. Rather than restoring a backup job
has to first scan the entire file system or Exchange from tape to disk and then searching through a long
mailbox to determine what data has changed prior to the backup file, CommVault software knows exactly where
backup job starting. By eliminating these scans, CommVault on disk or tape the data segment is located and can
can recover hours of valuable time for your organization. quickly recover the data.

Indexing data chunks also provides the added advantage

Work-load with Traditional Client Agent of running more frequent incremental backups and fewer
CPU
full backups which also reduces backup time. Traditional
incremental backups to tape created a complex recovery
Backup process as the user had to manually restore the last full
Scan backup, and every incremental backup tape to the point
Time of failure. With CommVault’s unique indexing architecture,
all backup jobs logically appear as a full backup, regardless
CPU
Scan replaced if the backup is a differential or incremental. Behind the
with query
scenes, the CommVault index combines all incremental
Backup
backups with the last full backup regardless of their location

Time
(disk or tape) to present a point in time image for recovery.
Imagine a world where you do not have to know what tape set
Work-load with Data Classification Agent
or disk location you are trying to recover from, but rather
select a client in the CommVault console, and
select the file or e-mail you need to restore
from any previous backup time period.
Streamlined Management

CommVault® Express provides a toolbar of “EZ” operations that make backup and recovery easy to
operate. Built-in wizards guide you through the appropriate steps to configure backup targets, perform
backups of Windows, Netware, Linux, and Unix systems, and recover data—without having to learn
enterprise software.

CommVault Express is designed to deploy quickly and easily. Auto-discovery of local file systems and
applications make selection of deployment options easy. Pre-defined default settings help get you started
protecting your data without you having to be an expert on CommVault software or application systems.

Delivering a Scalable Path

Unlike other backup software that requires a rip and replace upgrade process, CommVault Express provides
a keycode upgrade to convert your backup only software, to full CommVault® Simpana® software. With full
compatibility with prior backup copies, CommVault® Simpana® software provides full enterprise functionality
for up to thousands of servers and optional plug-in modules for deduplication, archive, replication, storage
resource management and search.
 CommVault® Express Packages
CommVault ® Package Description

CommVault® Express • Protects One (1) Windows, Linux, Netware or Unix file server
File Server Edition • Includes: One (1) Media Agent for Windows, Linux or Netware (choose one)
• Includes: Unlimited Backup to Disk
• Includes: One (1) Tape Drive License
• Upgradeable to CommVault® Simpana® software with a single keycode

CommVault® Express • Protects One (1) Application server

E-Mail or Database • Includes: One (1) Agent for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Office
Communications Server, MySQL, Notes, GroupWise or Oracle on Windows
Edition • Includes: One (1) Media Agent for Windows, Linux or Netware
• Includes: Unlimited Backup to Disk
• Includes: Two (2) Tape Drive Licenses
• Upgradeable to CommVault® Simpana® software with a single keycode

CommVault® Express • Protects unlimited virtual machines on one (1) VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual Server Edition or one (1) Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Use block differential backups to only move and store changed VMDK or
VHD blocks
• Includes: One (1) Universal Virtual Server Agent
• Includes: One (1) Agent for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Office
Communications Server, MySQL, Notes, GroupWise or Oracle on Windows
• Includes: One (1) Media Agent for Windows, Linux or Netware
• Includes: Unlimited Backup to Disk
• Includes: Two (2) Tape Drive Licenses
• Upgradeable to CommVault® Simpana® software with a single keycode

CommVault® Express System Requirements

Item Description
Hardware Intel Pentium or compatible 650 MHz processor minimum recommended.
512 MB RAM minimum required.
2.5 GB of log disk space for installing the software and future data growth.
Operating System Windows
Linux
Netware
MacOS X
HP-UX
AIX
Applications Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SQL
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office Communications Server
CommVault® Simpana® Microsoft Hyper-V
Backup & Recovery, MySQL
Archive, Replication, Notes
Resource Management GroupWise
and Search software Oracle on Windows
is designed to work VMware
together seamlessly from
the ground up, sharing
a single code and com-
mon function set. This
exclusive single-platform
architecture enables
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