#give me Opinions on Commvault

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muted plover
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Curious to hear if anyone is using it and if they like it or not?

compact ore
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works very well. We have lots of customers using it. It's extremely flexible. Have some weird requirement for your backup retentions or exotic clients that you need to backup? Commvault can probably do it. However, it can be very complex and overwhelming if you're new to it

robust garden
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I've supported it for the last 8yrs.
Hit me with some questions 😛

shrewd trout
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A Commvault master for 10 years, my product of choice especially when integrating with NetApp.
Great features, broad eco support, excellent dedup and security. Unmatched scalability.
If you have any questions, let me know!

robust garden
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I am not a master, just a guy who's hit his head on the wall a lot.
But I agree with Martijn.

It scales very well, it can take a beating, we have the capability to overwhelm any of our arrays from backup to restore processes if we don't stagger them well (a300's or pure flash arrays).

Do not skimp on MA sizing or DDB speeds/capacities, you will pay for it later when you need to redo it

muted plover
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I just support the NetApp side. Are you guys using ndmp or protocol based? I still find it very odd that Commvault needs access to the file system via protocol on the RW side of a snapmirror. If you are doing protocol based, are you using aqos?

shrewd trout
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The discussion about ndmp and protocol based is a good thing, but, as all in it, it depends. I love protocol based using snapdiff to gain all Commvault advantages. But when configured correct ndmp is quicker, but lacks incrementel forever. For snapmirror open replication is more easy to troubleshoot, but setting ip requires and already existing relationship.
Not used AQOS.
Not sure what you mean by access tot the filesystem on the rw side. Rw side is the active production side.

muted plover
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Yes, so you have the snapmirror, RW>DP. This is the way they are explaining the process, and the access they need to work. They have ZERO Official documentation it seems.

On RW.
Full Access to snapshot commands.
Read Access to volume via exports/share. *
Read Access to nfs and cifs commands.
Read Access to network commands
Other various Read Access.

I am ok with everything but the protocol access to the volumes.

DP Side
Full Access to way too much, but I care less because it's not the active side.

shrewd trout
muted plover
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I do not have an account, but I'll ask my resident

shrewd trout
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I can create a pdf version if you want

frigid tree
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I abandoned Commvault many years ago because of complexity. We now use Rubrik and have not looked back.

lucid rampart
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How's Commvault's performance when it comes to backing up Database to NetApp StorageGrid via S3 protocol?