Commvault and Nutanix announced Commvault integration and support of the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, including Commvault IntelliSnap snapshot management capabilities to simplify protection and recovery for data and virtual machines running on Nutanix. These enhancements mark the latest step in this partnership, enabling organizations to easily increase predictability, scalability and efficiency when deploying infrastructure in a virtualized environment while leveraging the flexibility to deliver customer-fit SLAs for recovery and easy data access from the Commvault Data Platform. Today, organizations are looking for datacenter 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. 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 optimize costs by seamlessly leveraging the most appropriate hypervisor, reducing risk and effort in scalable and high-performance solutions.

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. 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 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.