Scalability Takes On New Meaning Virtualization technology enables organizations to rapidly configure new systems as workload requirements change. But the newly found agility stemming from such 'elastic infrastructure' demands new levels of scale and performance as servers that once took weeks to deploy, now materialize in seconds. Just look at the growth expectations for virtual versus physical servers below. In terms of data protection, 'scale' no longer means how many terabytes of data, but must account for how many virtual machines can effectively and efficiently be protected.

1. FINDINGS:
NETBACKUP IS 3X FASTER THAN COMMVAULT
WHEN PERFORMING A GRANULAR RECOVERY BACKUP.
RESULTS FOR:
GRANULAR RECOVERY
14:00
15:00
7:00
8:00
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
6:00
5:00
4:00
3:00
2:00
1:00
0:00
1X 2X 3X
NetBackup enables granular recovery through a single-pass backup.
CommVault requires additional coordination between admins to
enable granular recovery.
4:46
15:24 NetBackup
FASTER
0
2
4
6
8
10
14
16
18
20
22
12
4:46
1
5:24
3X
SPEED TEST
00:30
00:15
00:00
01:15
01:00
00:45
02:15
02:00
01:45
01:30
1,000
VMs
00:08
1X 5X 10X 15X
02:15
0
1
2
4
5
3
2:15
NetBackup
FASTER
15X
RESULTS FOR:
ARRAY-BASED SNAPSHOTS
02:00
02:15
01:45
01:30
01:15
01:00
00:45
00:30
00:15
00:00
00:05
00:16
00:32
01:12
02:15
00:05 00:06 00:08
100 VMs 200 VMs 500 VMs 1,000 VMs
Snapshots can be used to create quicker Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and more
aggressive Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). When testing crash consistent backups,
NetBackup’s snapshot technology backed up 1,000 virtual machines in less than 9
minutes while CommVault required over 2 hours.
NetBackup
CommVault
FINDINGS:
NETBACKUP REQUIRES LESS THAN 9 MINUTES TO
BACK UP 1,000 VMS USING ARRAY-BASED SNAPSHOTS.
COMMVAULT REQUIRES OVER 2 HOURS TO COMPLETE THE
SAME ARRAY-BASED SNAPSHOT.
TOTALTIMETOCOMPLETEbackup(Hours:Minutes)
FOR ARRAY-BASED SNAPSHOTSSPEED TEST
(Hours:Minutes)
00:08
SPEED
RESULTS FOR:
HYPERVISOR-LEVEL BACKUP
9:00
11:00
13:00
15:00
7:00
5:00
3:00
1:00 0:25
2:52
0:43 1:11
2:51
6:16
14:32
NetBackup
CommVault
8:00
100 VMs 200 VMs 400 VMs 1,000 VMs
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Lower times are better when it comes to backup windows. NetBackup saves you hours,
especially in large-scale environments. As the environment scaled from 100 to 200,
400 and then 1,000 virtual machines, there were dramatic increases in the time
required by CommVault to perform the backups.
TOTALTIMETOCOMPLETEBACKUP(Hours:Minutes)
15:00
11:00
13:00
9:00
7:00
5:00
3:00
1:00
1,000
VMs
1X 2X 3X 4X 5X
2:51
14:32
0
2 4
6
810
1416
18
2022
12
2:51
1
4:32
NetBackup
FASTER
3X
FOR HYPERVISOR-LEVEL BACKUPSPEED TEST
FINDINGS:
NETBACKUP IS 11 HOURS FASTER THAN
COMMVAULT WHEN BACKING UP 1,000 VMS
(Hours:Minutes)
Principled Technologies’ benchmark results
show that in a growing enterprise data
center using VMware, NetBackup will scale
significantly better than CommVault.
NetBackup COMMVAULT
RESULTS
HYPERVISOR-LEVEL BACKUP & RECOVERY
ARRAY-BASED SNAPSHOTS
GRANULAR RECOVERY
BACKUP & RECOVERY
SCALABILITY BENCHMARK
SCALE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD
“NetBackup IS THE MOST
SCALABLE BACKUP &
RECOVERYSOLUTION”
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RESULTS
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COMMVAULTNetBackup
T E S T S P E R F O R M E D B Y
An industry leader and expert in
technology benchmark testing
ALL TESTS BASED ON:
• Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions
• Scaling from 100 to 1,000 VMware VMs
• Real-world Situations and Workloads
WHAT IS THE MOST
SCALABLE SOLUTION?
NetBackup COMMVAULT
Principled
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Technologies
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