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This article provides information about the support of Commvault Complete Complete Data
Protection on VMware Cloud that covers VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.

Disclaimer:  The partner solution referenced in this article is a solution that is developed and
supported by a partner. Use of this product is also governed by the end user license agreement of the
partner. You must obtain from the partner the application, support, and licensing for using this
product. For more information, see:

VMware Cloud on AWS: https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?

p=93413.htm (https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=93413.htm)

VMware Cloud on Dell/EMC:

https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=126043.htm
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Solution
Resolution
Here is a summary of target use cases, solution architecture, solution components, and support
information.
 

VMware Cloud on AWS

Use cases that are supported on VMware Cloud on AWS
Data Protection for Virtual Machines running within VMware Cloud on AWS using resources within
VMware Cloud on AWS or resources on AWS are fully supported

Replication of Virtual Machines from On-Prem VMware vSphere environments to VMware Cloud on
AWS
Migration or Recovery of VMware vSphere VMs into VMware Cloud on AWS environments

Use cases that are not supported on VMware Cloud on AWS

Replication of Virtual Machines from VMware vSphere on-premise to VMware Cloud on AWS using

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VMware VAIO
Live Mount and Live Recovery features of Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery which rely on
the ability to present external storage to VMC on AWS

Solution Architecture
Commvault Complete Data Protection can run in many configurations when used with VMware Cloud
on AWS. For a customer without an existing backup infrastructure, the Commvault infrastructure can
be completely deployed within VMware Cloud on AWS while utilizing storage resources, via ENI,
located within AWS. Each of the systems below refer to the software component of the Commvault
ecosystem. These components can run together on a single system or can be separated to run on
independent hosts, depending on the customer requirements.

A Commvault Commserve is required which is the core of the Commvault deployment. This runs on a
Windows server which hosts the Commvault management interface and configuration and
management database. The Commserve is not responsible data movement to or from clients.

The MediaAgent component is the data mover within the Commvault ecosystem. It is responsible for
managing client backup and restore data being written to or from backup media. In many cases, when
using Amazon storage tiers, clients can be configured to send index and metadata information to the
MediaAgent while sending the data portion of their backup operations directly to the cloud storage
target.
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The MediaAgent and Virtual Server Agent components can be scaled to support customer workloads
as needed. All documentation regarding recommended system sizing can be found at the following
link:
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Solution Components
Commvault Complete Data Protection is deployed from a single bootstrapper download used to
deploy the Commserve. All other software components are deployed, configured, and managed
through the Commserve once deployed.

VMware Cloud on AWS Network configuration

[Provide information on firewall rules, NAT rules, VPN, ENI setup]
[Provide screenshots from VMware Cloud on AWS console as needed]

Features of the Backup Solution

Choose from the list (all that apply)
Questions Provide free text when there is no list
AWS S3; AWS EC2; AWS cross-region; on-premises; any cloud stor
matrix:
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supported?   
How is backup data transmitted to
ENI (preferred), DX (supported), Public Internet (supported)
the repository? 
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Describe the implementation of the A single data mover (MediaAgent) is required but multiple are sup
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Datamover component of the customer
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If the data mover (MediaAgent) is running as an EC2 instance and

access, a single MediaAgent can manage data movement for multi
logically grouped together within Commvault Complete Backup an
Datamover Scale  customer RPO/RTO needs. 
 In large SDDCs (>500 VMs,
Commvault GridStor is a load balancing and failover technology b
>nTBs), your solution may
and Storage can be added to a backup plan at any time to scale da
scale data movers.  How do you
reconfiguring clients.
scale?

How are additional data

Customer controlled; but can be completely scripted using our pu
movers provisioned?  
File based recovery; 
Application/Databases consistent backup (Microsoft SQL, Exchang
Windows and Linux, and many more) Additional details can be fou
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backups   

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Describe if in-guest backup options
Any and all supported agents can be installed in-guest to further s
are available 
encryption in-rest 
encryption in transit 
FIPS-140-2 among other security/industry certifications noted her
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Full Role Based Access security with granular role assignment link
for multiple two factor authentication options

Describe security features   

Describe network Backup agents can be configured to support bandwidth limitation
bandwidth/utilization control Limitations on concurrent operations/threads/streams can be pla
features  virtualization infrastructure

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Deduplication and Compression can be enabled at the source (the

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at the data mover layer depending on customer need and require
database which checks in hashes of data blocks which have been
uniqueness. Only unique blocks are transferred to the Data Move

The deduplication database is only required during data protectio

describing and is restored without needing to refer to the dedupli
here:
Describe design of https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/12401_opti
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Describe added-value
 
services/features not listed above 
For a 1TB VM Full backup/Full
restore, describe

a. Network Bandwidth usage  

b. Time to backup/restore
c. RTO/RPO estimates

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Hybrid centralized management: The Commvault Commserve is designed to support multiple envir
Describe how on-premises and VMC and interface. On premise servers, virtualization platforms, and ag
backups can be managed. Do you VMC (along with all data movers and backup proxies) can simply b
support single management CommCell.
console?  

Hybrid restore/migration mode:

Describe how a VM can be restored  
from on-premises backup to VMC or
from VMC to on-premises 
For example, let’s say that you have
a hybrid configuration.  On-
premise with local backup, in VMC Commvault is able to backup and restore virtual machines from V
with cloud backup.  What happens if including VMware Cloud on AWS or directly to AWS. Since Commv
an on-premise VM is migrated to workload, it is unaffected by restores of that workload in alternate
VMC?  Will the backup solution the cloud. If the user has defined VMware Cloud on AWS as a kno
automatically update the location of Commvault will begin protecting the recovered VM within VMwar
the repository or will the VM still be
backed up on premise? 

   
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Scale:
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a. What are your supported
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We do not have a published maximum with respect to MediaAgen
maximums (# of VMs, # of TBs) both
environment scales and the backup proxies scale with it, those wo
in number, and/or in simultaneous
will have maximum scale recommendations, but these are not en
backup streams?
b. Given your SLA, then what is the
The SLA is defined by the customer not Commvault.
max bandwidth between VMC and
repository?

Interoperability with VMware Cloud on AWS Features

Commvault Complete Data Protection directly interacts with the vSphere/vSAN subsystems to detect,
classify, protect, and restore virtual machines configured by the user which require data protection. 
The interaction with VMware Cloud on AWS interoperability is documented here:
https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=126043.htm
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VMware Cloud on AWS does not provide low level access to the ESXi hosts underlying vSphere which

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limits the ability to use Live Sync IO (which requires VAIO) to provide replication from on-premises
vSphere environments into VMware Cloud on AWS. Additionally, Live Mount and Live Recovery
features are not available as Commvault does not have access to present storage from Commvault
Data Movers to VMware Cloud on AWS as datastores to allow for the quick boot/recovery of VMs
from backup media.
 

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Solution Architecture
Commvault makes no distinction between VMware vSphere on premise vs VMware Cloud on AWS vs
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.  The underlying integration remains the same and the feature set is
virtually identical across all platforms.
Datacenter:
In most environments for datacenter use cases, the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC will be paired with a
secondary platform to provide backup infrastructure. In the Commvault case, this could be any
compute and storage platform but for the purposes of this discussion, we will presume that the
customer deployed a Commvault HyperScale grid alongside the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC platform. 
The CommServe and MediaAgents will run on the Commvault HyperScale grid and all backup proxies
will be deployed running hot-add mode within the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC platform. The number
of backup proxies will depend entirely on the volume of data to be protected. Sizing information can
be found here:
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ROBO:
For the ROBO environment, it is far less likely that the customer will have the space/budget for a
secondary platform to run the Commvault infrastructure. In this case, all infrastructure (Commserve,
MediaAgents, and backup proxies) will run on the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC platform and storage
must be allocated to support the storage requirements dictated by the customer data protection
requirements.
All sizing requirements can be found at the following link and infrastructure requirements will be
dictated by customer data protection volume:
https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/1644_commcell_sizing.html
(https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/1644_commcell_sizing.html)

Clearly document network, bandwidth, local storage requirements for backup, restore and
replication for Datacenter and ROBO use cases

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Support Information

All Commvault product documentation can be found here:

https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?
p=documentation.htm
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p=documentation.htm)

Commvault Support can be found here:

https://ma.commvault.com/Support (https://ma.commvault.com/Support)
1-877-780-3077 (24x7 availability)

Sample problematic scenarios and how to address them

Link to the most common troubleshooting items can be found here:

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r_virtual_server_agent_with_vmware.html
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For more information on Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery, see

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