Veeam Availability Suite 9.

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Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that
must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping
organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a
fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data
and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage,
and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically
reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.
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Capability Description Veeam Commvault

High Speed Recovery
Quickly restore service to users by starting a VM directly from a backup file on regular backup
Instant VM Recovery™ storage.
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Multi-OS instant file level Recover files from 19 common file systems used by Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS, Novell, Solaris
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recovery and Unix.
Restore individual VMs, guest files and application items from EMC VNX, VNX2 and VNXe
Agentless recovery from snapshots, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) 3PAR StoreServ, StoreVirtual and StoreVirtual VSA
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storage snapshots snapshots, as well as from NetApp Data ONTAP-based storage, including FAS, FlexArray, Data
ONTAP Edge and Nimble CS-series and AF-series snapshots.
Search and restore for all Active Directory (AD) object types, such as users, groups, computer
Agentless recovery for accounts and contacts, including user and computer password recovery. Includes multi-select
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Microsoft Active Directory restore and container restore, Group Policy Objects (GPO) restore, AD-integrated DNS records
restore and Configuration Partition objects restore.
Get instant visibility into Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016 backups for item recovery of
individual Exchange items (emails, appointments, notes, contacts, etc.), online archive
Agentless recovery for
mailboxes and hard-deleted items. Leverage comprehensive e-Discovery functionality, 5
Microsoft Exchange including query-result, size estimation and detailed export reports. Includes support for restore
via save, send, PST export and back into the original mailbox.
Restore individual SQL databases with ease, without needing an extensive SQL background or
having to search for database and transaction-log files. Includes point-in-time export of SQL
Agentless recovery for
database files locally, agentless transaction-log backup and replay, transaction-level recovery of 6
Microsoft SQL Server databases and SQL objects (tables, stored procedures, views, etc.) back to the original or new
SQL server.
Get instant visibility into SharePoint backups with advanced search-and-browse capabilities for
Agentless recovery for
quick recovery of individual SharePoint items and entire sites. Includes SharePoint item restore 7
Microsoft SharePoint via save, send, export, entire-site restore, as well as restore to the original location.
Restore individual Oracle databases with ease, without needing an extensive Oracle
Agentless recovery for background or having to search for database and transaction-log files. Includes agentless,
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Oracle transaction-log backup, archived log management and transaction-level recovery of databases
back to the original or new Oracle server.
Delegated, self-service Restore guest files, VMs, and application items with a single click through a web UI. Includes full
recoveries for application self-service for all web UI recovery features by delegating recoveries for individual VMs and
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owners and help desk groups of VMs to specific users or groups such as local IT staff, application owners, department
operators members, etc.

Direct Restore to Microsoft Restore or migrate on-premises, Windows-based or Linux-based VMs, physical servers and
Azure endpoints directly into Microsoft Azure.

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 Capability Description Veeam Commvault
Data Loss Avoidance
Create application-consistent, image-level VM backups with advanced, application-aware
Agentless, application-
processing (including transaction log truncation) agentlessly. Includes support for creating jobs 10
aware image-based backup using vSphere tags and datastore clusters to ensure no VMs are left unprotected.
Allows you to set the maximum acceptable I/O latency level for production datastores to
ensure backup and replication activities do not impact storage availability to production
Backup I/O control workloads. Includes a global latency setting and provides setting customization on a per-
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datastore basis.
Create image-based backups and replicas from EMC VNX, VNX2 and VNXe snapshots, HPE 3PAR
Backup from Storage StoreServ, StoreVirtual and StoreVirtual VSA snapshots, as well as from NetApp Data ONTAP
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Snapshots based storage including FAS, FlexArray (V-Series), Data ONTAP Edge, IBM N series and Nimble
CS- and AF-series snapshots, as often as necessary with little to no impact on production.
Veeam Cloud Connect Get your backups off site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup, and restore from the
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Backup cloud through a service provider of your choice.

End-to-end encryption with Secure backup data and network transfers with end-to-end AES 256-bit encryption – at source,
in-flight, and at rest (tape) – without any negative impact on built-in compression and WAN 14
lost password recovery acceleration data-reduction ratios. Includes lost password protection.
Back up and archive files and VM backups to standalone tapes, tape libraries and virtual tape
libraries connected to any Microsoft Windows server in your environment. Supports copying
Windows, Linux and VM backup files to tape. Includes tight integration with backup jobs and
Native tape support supports full tracking of VMs and restore points on tape, as well as in media vaults. Also includes
support for global media pools (spanning multiple tape libraries) and a dedicated media pool
type to simplify Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) retention.
Deduplicating storage Get faster backup performance by backing up to deduplicating storage integrations (EMC Data
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system integrations Domain Boost, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst and ExaGrid Accelerated Data Mover).
Get backups off site up to 50x faster and save bandwidth with agentless Backup Copy jobs and
Built-in WAN Acceleration replicas. Supports any target including Veeam Cloud Connect.
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Scale-out Backup Provide an abstraction layer over individual storage devices to create a single, unlimited virtual
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Repository™ pool of backup storage for your backups.
Agentless, image-based VM
Replicate VMs on site for high availability, or off site for DR. 18
replication
Veeam Cloud Connect Ensure Availability of your mission-critical applications with fully integrated, fast and secure
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Replication cloud-based DR through a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provider of your choice.
Verified Recoverability
Automatically test and verify every backed-up VM for recoverability by running the VM directly
SureBackup® from a backup file (no full VM restore is required), including support for custom application test 20
scripts.

Automatically test and verify every VMware vSphere replica VM for recoverability, including
SureReplica support for custom application test scripts.
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Leveraged Data
Run one or more VMs directly from a backup or storage snapshot in an isolated environment
On-Demand Sandbox™ with the ability to troubleshoot, test and train on a working copy of the production 22
environment, without impacting business operations.
Complete Visibility
Advanced VM monitoring,
Veeam ONE™, part of Veeam Availability Suite, delivers real-time monitoring, reporting and
reporting, and capacity capacity planning for production and backup infrastructures.
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planning
Multi-hypervisor support
vCloud Director support
Support for VMware vSphere 4.1 or later, and Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 or later. View both
hypervisors from a single console.
Back up vApp and VM metadata and attributes and restore vApps and VMs directly to vCloud
with full support for fast-provisioned VMs. Includes scheduled incremental backup jobs of
vCloud VMs, customer portal integration via RESTful API, self-service, tenant-managed backup
and restore via Enterprise Manager, and native vCloud Director authentication.

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Validation and substantiation

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Commvault Live Recovery is available for VMware vSphere virtual machines only. Restoring VMs with Live Recovery.
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Restore of Windows data to Linux destination and vice versa is not supported. A standalone virtual machine, known as a File Recovery Enabler for Linux is required to enable Live File
Recovery from UNIX VMs. This scenario supports ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS, and Btrfs file systems only. Restores for Guest Files and Folders with VMware. In place restore of Linux guest files
in Hyper-V is not supported without agents. Restoring Guest Files and Folders (Microsoft Hyper-V).
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Individual application agents are required for granular recovery. Storage snapshots must be taken by Commvault to enable recovery from other storage snapshots (for example, taken
manually, or with native snapshot scheduler) are not supported.
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Commvault requires an Active Directory agent for any type of granular recovery. Deployment — Active Directory Agent. Commvault requires modifying the Active Directory schema to
enable a potentially insecure password recovery feature. Enabling Restore of Passwords.
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Commvault requires multiple Exchange agents and add-ons for granular Exchange recovery. Overview - Microsoft Exchange Server Agents.
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Commvault requires an agent for granular SQL recovery. Getting Started with the SQL Server Agent.
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Commvault requires multiple agents for granular SharePoint recovery. Getting Started - SharePoint Server iDataAgent - Overview.
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Commvault requires an agent for granular Oracle recovery. Getting Started with the Oracle Agent.
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Self-service restore is only available for files and full VMs. Recovering Virtual Machines or VM Files Using the Web Console. Files can only be restored from the most recent backup of a
virtual machine. End User Operations for VM Lifecycle Management - Restore Files.
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Log truncation for server applications require corresponding application specific agents.

Commvault’s datastore throttling does not datastore I/O into account while a backup job is running. Rather, it takes datastore placement into account when determining virtual
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machine backup priority. VM Dispatch, Throttling, and Load Balancing. Manual network bandwidth throttling is available for certain scenarios but is not equivalent to datastore I/O
monitoring and automatic backup I/O throttling. Commvault has no visibility into the I/O pattern of a datastore or how it is impacted by a backup job. Network Bandwidth Throttling -
Overview.
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Commvault supports creating a VM backup from a production storage snapshot on multiple storage vendor arrays. Supported Storage Arrays.

Commvault does not integrate their backup jobs with a managed service provider of the customers choosing (they do support a limited number of public cloud storage providers).
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Commvault’s cloud services are more focused on moving workloads to public clouds and VM lifecycle management rather than enforcing the 3-2-1 rule. Cloud Storage - Support.
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Commvault can encrypt backup files with AES 256 encryption but if the passphrase used to encrypt them is lost or forgotten, the files cannot be decrypted and thus cannot be
restored. Data Encryption. Encrypting Commvault backups causes the backups to become less compressible and is therefore recommended that compression not be enabled on
encrypted data. Data Encryption FAQ.
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Commvault does not offer integrations with EMC Data Domain Boost or HPE StoreOnce Catalyst. They have no technical integration with Exagrid. Data Domain Boost Integrations.
Exagrid Technology Partners. HPE StoreOnce Datasheet.
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Commvault DASH copies have WAN optimizations to reduce bandwidth requirements but do not have global cache mechanism to prevent transferring recurrent data, which is the key
capability that defines WAN Acceleration. Staging Backup Data Using DASH Copy.
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Commvault does not provide an abstraction layer over individual storage devices to create a single virtual pool of backup storage for your backups. Storage Policy - Advanced.
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Commvault Live Sync uses existing backup data to create and maintain a DR site for virtual machines. Live Sync updates destination VMs from subsequent incremental backups of the
source VMs. Granular recovery from Live Sync VMs is not possible and failover options are limited to test boot, planned/unplanned failover and failback. No orchestration or automation
capabilities are available. Using Live Sync to Support Disaster Recovery.
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Commvault Live Sync does not provide replication capabilities outside of the customer’s own infrastructure. Configuring Live Sync.
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Commvault Live Mount is used to temporarily boot a VM from a stored backup. There is no automated verification that the VM has booted, that the guest OS has started successfully,
that VMware tools has initiated successfully, or that any applications running on the recovered VM have started successfully. Recovering a Virtual Machine Using Live Mount.
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Commvault Live Sync verifies that the destination VM is bootable but powering it on and then powering it off. There is no automated verification that the guest OS has started
successfully, that VMware tools has initiated successfully, or that any applications running on the recovered VM have started successfully. Live Sync Replication.
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Commvault does not provide a supported, managed, and isolated virtual lab environment that is securely accessible from production environment for troubleshooting applications,
testing OS updates and software patches.
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Commvault has very no monitoring of VM performance, alerting, or infrastructure capacity planning. A basic capacity planning module provides the user with a ‘days to full’ prediction
for backup storage. Capacity Planning.

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