CommVault® offers Advanced Features which are built into the Common Technology Engine architecture, which can be turned on with a license key. Building them into the architecture makes them easy for to use with any CommVault software deployment.

The following Advanced Features are built into the CommVault software platform:

• 1-Touch System Recovery (BMR)
• CommCell® Client Migration
• CommCell® Explorer
• Data Classification Enabler for Single Pass client disk scanning
• Data Encryption **
• Data Erase **
• Disaster Recovery (DR) **
• GridStor™ Reliability **
• Single Instance Store (SIS)
• SNMP Enabler
• Vault Tracker™ Enterprise **

Advanced Features are offered with independent license keys. Some are also offered as a bundled package, called the Advanced Feature Pack (AFP) — and are marked with an asterisks (**) in the list above.

1-Touch System Recovery
CommVault® 1-Touch System Recovery automates the process of rebuilding and recovering an entire Windows, Linux, Solaris or AIX system so you can rapidly get back to business. 1-Touch helps you prepare for disaster recovery by centrally managing software distributions and service packs. In case of disaster, recovery is as simple as booting from the 1-Touch CD and letting the 1-Touch Server rebuild your OS, file system, registry and applications. You can even recover to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.

CommCell® Client Migration
The Client Migration feature enables the merge of multiple CommCell® deployments into a single deployment, as well as permanent and temporary migration of selected client systems from one CommCell deployment to another.

CommCell® Explorer
Because the top-level of metadata created by CommVault software is kept in a SQL Server database, it is easy to use for ad hoc query, analysis and reporting purposes. The CommCell® Explorer provides an easy-to-use interface that makes it simple to take advantage of the metadata collected, to view scheduled administration jobs, Aux copy jobs, backup jobs, client configurations, library configurations, and other key information from the metadata.

Data Classification Enabler
This feature works with the Windows Journal to capture and track changes written to the Windows file system, and eliminate the need to perform a disk scan process to find file changes. Disk scanning is otherwise required for every backup, archive or resource management job, whether using CommVault software or some other data management software option. Only CommVault provides the Data Classification Enabler option to avoid multiple disk scans. CommVault's Singular approach means that this feature benefits not just one type of data management, but all types that are in use together on the same client system

Data Encryption
CommVault's Data Encryption capability secures data over networks and on media. What makes CommVault's approach unique is the flexibility of when and how the data is encrypted along with secure management of the decryption keys.

Administrators are able to select encryption as follows:

• Before the data leaves the client system to ensure secure network transmission, for replication, backup and archive data copies
• When writing the initial backup or archive data copy to disk or tape
• When making secondary copies of backup and archive data copies, from one storage device to the next — especially useful for encrypting data before it is stored on removable media such as tape
• Any combination of these options

Data Erase
The Data Erase feature enables the secure recycling of removable media, including tapes and optical platters, by making older data unrecoverable from the media. This feature works on spare, retired and recycled media from tape and optical libraries.

Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery capabilities are a built-in part of the capabilities that come with the CommVault CommServe™ system. These capabilities enable a rapid rebuild of the CommCell® environment on new equipment at a disaster recovery hot site location. This includes protection of the the Microsoft SQL Server database of metadata collected for the CommCell® deployment, the Windows registry keys on the CommServe™ system, and the firewall configuration files. Both full and differential backups are supported.

For those organisations that need more than these built-in disaster recovery capabilities, the Disaster Recovery feature offers a bundled "disaster preparedness pack" which includes: a warm standby state at your disaster recovery location; an additional Windows Media Agent license with support for a single stand-alone tape device; an additional Windows client agent license; automated updates of the license file with Disaster Recovery standby CommServe™ information whenever the configuration of your CommVault software changes.

GridStor™ Capabilities
With the GridStor feature, you can count on automated load balancing and failover of any network-based or local data stream to deliver sophisticated control of where and how your data is moved, including complete device and storage media sharing.

GridStor works across Linux, UNIX and Windows Media Agents. If a data path or storage resource fails—for example., if a network, tape drive or Media Agent becomes unavailable—GridStor can use any other available resource to finish the job. GridStor also allows the exact same device and media to be used to complete the job, if it's available. So enterprises can fully leverage deployed resources, rather than be forced into using a single OS type or maintain standby storage resource pools.

Single Instance Store (SIS)
To expand on the benefits of disk-based data management, Single Instance Store (SIS) eliminates duplicate copies of files and attachments found in backups and archives stored on disk. SIS does this by comparing the contents of files to find duplicates; matches are not affected by any differences in file names, properties or attributes. This method ensures that exact digital duplicates can be matched and eliminated across data sets, applications, clients and OS platforms, maximizing compression benefits. As new backup and archive copies are made on weekly cycles, the compression ratio continuously improves as the number of duplicate files avoided continues to increase.

SNMP Enabler
The SNMP Enabler sends SNMP event traps on the network for every CommServe™ system alert, to enable third-party Systems Management Software to receive and report on CommVault software alerts as part of their operation. SNMP event trapping uses the industry-standard Systems Network Management Protocol (SNMP) alert process and its Management Information Protocol (MIB) format to work with any third-party software supporting SNMP event trapping capabilities.

If you use SNMP event trapping software, then you will benefit from including the SNMP Enabler as part of your CommVault software deployment.

Vault Tracker™ 7.0 Standard and Enterprise Editions
CommVault® Vault Tracker™ software provides built-in capabilities for automating, tracking and reporting the process of rotating media and containers to off-site locations. These capabilities are built-in to the CommVault Common Technology Engine architecture, to make it simple and easy to manage as part of the backup and archive process. Vault Tracker™ software comes in two editions:

• Vault Tracker™ software as a standard component, which is enabled as part of any CommVault backup or archive solution. This edition can be used to track media movement between two locations or libraries, and automates media export.
• Vault Tracker™ Enterprise Edition, which is a license-key upgrade to add more robust capabilities including container tracking, Due Back capabilities, and managing a Media Repository. The Enterprise edition can be used to track media movement between several locations and libraries.
• Scheduling, managing and reporting are all done from the CommVault Unified Console along with backup and archive.