We are a solution provider and we offer Commvault to our customers.
In my company, we are also using it for backup and recovery.
We are a solution provider and we offer Commvault to our customers.
In my company, we are also using it for backup and recovery.
The price should be reduced because it is too expensive for our customers.
I would like to see a more user-friendly GUI.
I have been working with Commvault for between five and six years.
This is a very stable product.
Commvault is scalable. We have about seven or eight engineers
The technical support is very professional.
In the past, we have worked with similar solutions from competitors such as Dell EMC.
I found the installation easy because I have a lot of experience with backup solutions.
My advice for anybody who is looking at Commvault is that it is better suited to larger businesses.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
We have it in our data center, and it's primarily used for our servers. We take backups of the data to protect ourselves. If by mistake we delete some data from the primary storage, we can restore the data from the backup.
For the last six months, we have been providing a graphical user interface for our customers for Commvault so they can, themselves, restore files and folders.
They are evolving. Any time we encounter a problem, an issue, we have a good relation with the development of Commvault, and they work tightly with us together to solve the problem. The fix then becomes available in the new service pack.
It's an enterprise product. It's a stable product. We have good support. Almost all databases are in the scope. I can't really say anything bad about it. It’s a good, stable product.
You need quite a lot of human resources to maintain a Commvault environment, to keep it operational. Also, it would be nice to if there were an easier way set up some Commvault components.
I don't know exactly when they came out with the new HTML interface because, until then, the interface was a based on Java. The HTML interface is a remarkable improvement. However, there are still some features that are not available in that interface that are available in the Java console, but I'm sure that will come with time.
Another issue that comes to mind, that we have to pay attention to is, when a new service pack or hotfix comes out, it can happen that something that was working before does not work anymore. We really have to test it in our lab, before we are 100 percent sure we can introduce it in production and be 100 percent sure that everything still works that was working before.
Stability is okay.
The new HyperScale solution from Commvault is a scale-out solution. We are not using it yet. One month ago, we did a book with the scale-out solution, so we do not have much experience with it. I expect a lot from it.
I'm not on the operational team, but what I hear from colleagues is that they are quite happy with the support. We have a good relationship with them.
Commvault is certainly a vendor that you have to take into consideration if you are looking into a backup solution. It’s worthwhile to have a look at it.
The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are cost and, perhaps, new features that Commvault maybe doesn't have, like backups to public clouds, for instance. But the primary factor is the cost.
I would rate Commvault at eight out of 10 due to the stability, our relationship with the development team, and the quality of their backup of their solution.
Customers who can’t afford storage on their on-premise servers can easily use the product to move to the cloud.
I like the Metallic Endpoint feature. Whoever has an Endpoint license can store unlimited data on the cloud. Commvault provides unlimited restoration for free. Other products have a limit on restoration. When we cross the limit, we must pay for restoration.
The product does not provide an option to save a copy of data on-premises.
I have been using the solution for three to five months.
I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.
The solution is scalable. We have three to five customers using the tool.
Whenever we raise a ticket, the support personnel connects with us at the exact time that they committed to. I can rate the support team a ten out of ten without a doubt.
Positive
The on-premise solution is a lengthy one to configure. We can deploy the solution in three to four clicks, though. The product is purely cloud-based.
To deploy the tool, we must authenticate our email ID on Commvault. Then, we will get a link from which we need to generate a username and password. Once we enter that username and password, we'll get a region of the cloud where we need to configure the storage tool.
The solution is worth the money. Depending on the customer’s feasibility, they pay for the license every year or every three years. The evaluation is given for 30 to 90 days, which has to be paid.
A sales manager, a technical manager, a COO, one of my colleagues, and I handle Commvault in our company. Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Our customers use Commvault as a backup solution.
I work as a system integrator. We implement and support Commvault in our customers' environments.
We usually deploy the latest major release.
We can monitor, with normal detection, from the regular backup. We can determine whether it is suspicious if the client suddenly has major changes in their data.
The most valuable features are the integration with the storage center and support for most applications, databases, and security system platforms that exist on the market.
The user interface for Commvault is quite user-friendly. It is easy to manage the Commvault environment using the user interface.
Commvault Command Center is fully supported and has many features for us to manage the environment.
Commvault is able to do the recovery process from their console, so we don't have to actually log into it. Also, Commvault can direct information to another server. The recovery option is a very good feature.
I can collect the target data, then we connect it to Commvault. There is not another system that can connect to our target database or target storage. This is very important for us, because there is the threat of malware right now. This can protect not only the product, but also the backup data from outside threats.
Commvault supports remote office backup. It backs up the local data, then keeps monitoring and managing it.
I would like Commvault to have a feature for cybersecurity threats, e.g. securing the target backup repository. Commvault just started testing and releasing this feature, but it needs to be stabilized.
We have been implementing Commvault for our customers for around three years.
Commvault is very stable.
Commvault is very scalable in terms of the data that Commvault can maintain.
Commvault support is very good and helpful. We receive a lot of help for our problems.
Positive
The deployment of Commvault is pretty straightforward. Commvault can do remote installation for the client. The deployment time depends on the customer's or user's permissions.
One of my customers has seen savings when using Commvault compared to other storage solutions. They compared the price of Commvault with performing maintenance on their backup system, and Commvault's price is competitive versus other backup software.
Commvault helps our customers' admins to minimize the time they spend on backup tasks and other projects. Commvault is very good in terms of performance backup. I think support time has been reduced by around 25% to 30%.
Commvault is quite high in terms of pricing and licensing.
I have also worked with IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam. Overall, Commvault has better support than other backups. Their support is very fast when resolving our problems.
My customers use dedupe applications, so we don't use Commvault's feature to reduce storage costs.
Commvault is very feature-rich. Its licensing is quite easy to configure, though we must pick the right size for the backup environment so the customer can have the best price.
I would rate Commvault as eight out of 10.
I'm using the backup email feature with the hypervisor backup on VMware. I'm also working with different databases.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
The solution is very stable and offers a good level of performance.
The product can scale if a company needs it to.
We've noticed that technical support has recently gotten much better.
We've had issues with the solution not restoring certain environments. There also issues we find when we want to restore, for example, a cloud environment.
The product could be more convenient in terms of working with different solutions and having more integration between the different products in the market. It really should integrate better with, for example, VMware or Nutanix or Hyper-V. It would be really, really helpful if that were the case.
I've dealt with the solution for the last three years or so.
The product has been stable. There are no bugs or glitches. So far, it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.
The product can scale if a company needs it to. It does have the potential to expand as needed.
In our company, we have about 1,300 people using it.
When I started to work with Commvault product, it wasn't very good, however, there has been a huge development in service. Their support is now working fine. They're much more helpful and professional. They've come a long way. We're satisfied with the progress they've made.
I have also worked with other products, such as NetBackup and Veeam.
The pricing is a place where they all vary. While Commvault is cheaper than Veeam, it's more expensive than NetBackup.
The initial setup is not overly difficult or complex. It's simple. It's straightforward.
I'm unsure as to how many people are required to maintain the solution. It's not an aspect of the product that falls under my responsibility.
The solution isn't the cheapest. It's also not the most expensive. It's basically somewhere in the middle. However, it's a fine price. It's what you would expect to pay for a full solution. That said, for some environments, it could be considered a bit expensive.
We are resellers.
I would advise those considering the solution, that, if they use it in conjunction with Nutanix, there may be some limitations. You can't back up, for example, on Nutanix and restore things to Veeam or other environments.
That said, we're mostly satisfied with the solution. I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.
Our primary use case is for backups. We are customers of Commvault and I'm a senior IT administrator.
Real-time synchronization is a good feature.
This is not a very high standard product.
I've been using this solution for three years.
The solution is not very stable.
The technical support is below average.
We had many issues so the deployment took around three months. We had two IT admins carrying out the implementation.
I rate this solution four out of 10.
Our primary use case for this solution is for backups and restoration, and we deploy the solution on-premises.
The solution has provided our organization with a better security posture.
The convenience of backing up and restoring simultaneously is very valuable.
We have been using this solution for five years.
The solution is stable.
The solution is scalable, and the entire organization is currently using this solution.
I rate the technical support team as six out of ten.
Neutral
We previously used Veeam.
The initial setup was complex.
Implementation was done in-house with a team of approximately ten people.
I don't recall the exact cost of licensing. However, I rate the prices a ten out of ten.
I rate this solution ten out of ten. It is a great tool which is easy to use, and I am satisfied with the product.
We are using Commvault to protect some of our workloads in the public cloud. We are using it in AWS SAM and Office 365.
Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution.
This product is overly complex to operate and run.
The price of this solution could be lower.
We have been working with Commvault for about 18 months.
From a stability point of view, it is very good.
It's extremely scalable. It's used across the coalition control team and the cloud team, so there are a couple of dozen administrators. We are running a great deal more than that in the backend systems.
The technical support is pretty good.
We used Spectrum Protect or Tivoli Storage Manager for quite a few years.
The initial setup looked complex so we contracted Commvault to do it.
Commault completed the deployment but even they had issues, particularly with getting Office 365 operating correctly. Their professional services were the ones who deployed it.
One of the issues with backup vendors is that they overprice, or overvalue their products.
We are looking at Metallic as an alternative because Commvault is a good product but it is a bit complex.
Overall, this is a good product and very capable. That said, my advice for anybody who is considering it is to make sure that it fits your purpose. If you can make do with a simpler product then choose a simpler product.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.