Reddit reviews CommVault Concepts & Design Strategies

Books online is the first stop

I mentioned a dead-tree book upthread as well that helps to rework the backup/retention strategy to fit within the workflow CV provides.

haha. You are literally the first person Ive ever heard complain about anything other than cost.

Their services are literally the most reliable backup and DR product ive used in 10 years (between VEEAM which only did vms at the time, MSDPM, Backup exec etc.).

and a "production outage", its your data management system not your SAN. Yes it can be scary but they do have 30 minute call back windows and frankly when its taken a dive, im the only one that knows (and my boss of course)

Commvault literally is not a bottleneck ive seen on any system ive used (supporting my second deployment now), often its Disk IO with network being next. Literally get wireline speeds on backups. You just have to understand that storage is much more than capacity.

I literally don't have issues with their interface and quite like the granularity im given with subclient/storage profiles etc.

Sounds to me like you got in over your head, or didn't understand the system, much like people that claim Netapp/EMC^2 etc are "steaming piles of shit". Well yeah when you have no idea what is going on and you set raid group sizes to 5 disks or set luns for "windows" and then present to a different offset (like vmfs in VMware).


FWIW I learned all the ins and outs of commvault through a single 1 week class (that was average price at 8k compared to VMware and other vendors) and a single book.

http://www.amazon.com/CommVault-Concepts-Design-Strategies-Celauro/dp/1467953709/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452282872&sr=8-2&keywords=commvault

But then again when I call vendors for support, its often to validate or work with me to figure out ways to solve an issue, not "your the vendor, fix my shit" kinda calls which I see a lot of from many admins..