Today, organisations are looking for datacentre infrastructure for tier 1 applications that can make infrastructure truly invisible, so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. There is also a growing need for modern data protection that aligns to this new infrastructure architecture with a single solution for all hypervisors that is easy, scalable and secure.
“Two of the most important trends that IT professionals should be focused on are – increasing their virtualisation agility and assuring the reliability and recovery of that environment,” said Jason Buffington (@JBuff), senior analyst at ESG. “As organisations continue their virtualisation journey, converged & hyperconverged systems make huge amounts of sense. And since ‘when modernising production, you must modernise protection,’ it also makes a lot of sense to integrate agile snapshots, application-aware data protection and mature data management technologies into joint solutions that assure customers that their new infrastructure is not only highly performant, but also highly reliable and recoverable”.
By adding support for the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor alongside capabilities already available for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, Commvault will be the only data protection software platform that provides hardware snapshot integration and agentless protection for all three hypervisors on Nutanix. This integration, leveraging Commvault IntelliSnap and Nutanix Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric snapshot functionality, provides customers with the ability to optimise costs by seamlessly leveraging the most appropriate hypervisor, reducing risk and effort in scalable and high-performance solutions.
“Building on our industry-leading work with virtualised environments and snapshots, Commvault is uniquely positioned to bring enhanced data protection and recovery to hyperconverged customers using Nutanix Acropolis,” said Brian Allison, VP of Worldwide Alliances, Commvault. “This represents a significant milestone in our commitment to providing the holistic data management solutions organisations are demanding and is indicative of the close engineering relationship between Commvault and Nutanix”.
With integration into Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, Commvault adds to its pre-existing portfolio of managing and protecting hypervisors including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V.
“Commvault has been an early and strong supporter of the Acropolis hypervisor since its launch,” said Venugopal Pai, Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Nutanix. “IT organisations need holistic data protection and management for their critical enterprise applications. We see Commvault as an ideal partner to provide these important capabilities. Today, Nutanix and Commvault are addressing a critical need in the datacentre”.
Basic support for Nutanix Acropolis is available now to select customers, with more advanced IntelliSnap technology integration coming later in the quarter. Key features of the Nutanix and Commvault integration include:
• Deploy the data protection solution that aligns to your applications’ unique needs with options for both streaming and snapshot-based backup for virtual machines
• Collapse backup windows and accelerate restores through easy to use snapshot management without scripting
• Ensure application consistency across a wide-range of enterprise applications including SAP, Oracle, Exchange, and SQL Server
• Eliminate the need for complex multiple point-solutions with a fully integrated solution across physical, virtual (VMware, Hyper-V, and Acropolis Hypervisors) and cloud-based data
“We’re hearing more and more from organisations that they need infrastructure – hardware as well as data management for what’s running on it – that is easier to manage, deploy, scale and protect,” said Chris Mierzwa, Senior Vice president of Infrastructure Strategy at Sirius Computer Solutions. “As a leading provider of solutions based on Commvault and Nutanix technologies, we believe that this enhanced integration will be an extremely attractive solution for our need of a data management and protection solution for hyperconverged environments”.
