NetApp

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help their customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. NetApp's dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made them one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

How CommVault partners with NetApp:

CommVault and NetApp continue to demonstrate innovation and market leadership together, as evidenced by the hundreds of joint customers that have been able to enjoy the fully optimized disk-based data and information management solutions that allow businesses to better protect, manage and recover critical data anytime and anywhere.

By integrating the CommVault® Simpana® software's advanced disk-based data protection technologies with NetApp storage systems and SnapVault®, Snapshot®, SnapLock®, and Open Systems SnapVault® software, customers can significantly improve backup and restore performance, minimize media consumption and simplify data recovery, while seamlessly moving backup and archive data across tiers of storage - all through a single interface. CommVault Simpana integrated index and search capabilities enable backup and email archives to be searched to meet compliance and eDiscovery requirements. Further integration enables data to be replicated from heterogeneous storage systems onto NetApp storage while leveraging NetApp Snapshot technology.

For more information:

For more information regarding CommVault or NetApp solution contact your local CommVault or NetApp sales representative. For more information about NetApp products, visit the NetApp website: www.netapp.com

 

ONTAP Certification Matrix

Data ONTAP Release CommVault Galaxy Release Certification Completed Comments
up to 7.3; 10 8.0 Yes  
up to 7.3; 10 7.0 Yes  
up to 7.2 6.1 Yes  
up to 7.0 5.9 Yes  
up to 6.5 5.0 Yes  
up to 6.4 4.2 Yes Certified by CommVault April 2003.
up to 6.3
(including 6.2.1, 6.2, and 6.1.3)
4.1 Yes Certified by CommVault September 2002.
up to 6.1.2 3.7.1 Yes Certified by CommVault February 2002.
up to 6.1.1R2 3.7.0 Yes Certified by CommVault September 2001.
6.1 3.1 Yes Certified by CommVault, April 2001. Patch 4 Required.
6.0 2.6/2.6 GSP1 Yes Certification of Direct Access Restore January 2001.
6.0 2.5 GSP1 (Galaxy Service Pack) Yes Certified by CommVault September 2000. No support of Direct Access Recovery.
5.3.6R1 & 5.3.6R2 2.5 GSP1 (Galaxy Service Pack) Yes Certified by CommVault August 2000.
5.3.5 2.5 GSP1 (Galaxy Service Pack) Yes Certified by CommVault August 2000.
5.3.4R2 & earlier releases 2.6 + No Earlier ONTAP releases will be certified on as required basis.

Note:

CommVault Galaxy™ Backup & Recovery supports Network Data Management Protocol version 4 as well as 2 and 3 (as of Galaxy 3.7.1). Data ONTAP releases prior to 5.3.4R2 support one or both of these NDMP versions; however, this does not guarantee that CommVault will certify all or any specific versions of Data ONTAP prior to 5.3.5

 

Press Releases

NetApp Related CommVault Press Releases

11/11/2008

CommVault and NetApp Broaden Strategic Relationship to Deliver Enhanced Archiving Capabilities

4/11/2007

Cardinal Logistics Drives Higher Performance and Estimates Cost Savings of 65 Percent with CommVault® and Network Appliance™ E-Mail Archiving Solution

12/19/2006

Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Chooses CommVault to Manage and Protect Global Infrastructure

7/24/2006

CommVault and NetApp Sign Deal to Offer Low-Cost, High-Performance Data Protection to the SMB Market

7/18/2006

NetApp Announces Industry's First Integration of Leading Backup Applications with VTL Appliance

11/19/2003

CommVault and Network Appliance Expand Partnership to Include Enhanced Data Protection and Compliance Solutions

11/19/2003

CommVault Announces QiNetix 5.0 Optimized for Network Appliance

6/4/2003

CommVault Galaxy First Certified Backup and Recovery Software on HDS-NetApp® Enterprise NAS Gateway

9/25/2002

CommVault Delivers High-Performance, Data Protection Solutions for NetApp® NearStore™

5/9/2001

CommVault Systems and Network Appliance Introduce Certified Tape Backup Solutions

9/13/2000

CommVault Systems and Network Appliance Announce Galaxy Enterprise 2000 for Next-Generation Data Protection of Network Appliance® Filers

9/13/2000

CommVault Systems and Network Appliance Announce Galaxy Enterprise 2000 Support for Network Appliance® F840 Series Filers and Data OnTap™ 6.0

3/1/1999

CommVault Systems Announces Strategic Alliance with Network Appliance