CommVault Services

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault®Simpana® 1-Touch Server software. 1-Touch Server is a highly-automated, enhanced variation of the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) procedure that is commonly used in industry to recover systems. This course covers installation of the 1-Touch Server software; configuration of recovery images for Linux and Windows, software requirements for AIX and Solaris, and creation of 1-Touch Client Recovery boot disks.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to perform the following key tasks:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for planning, deployment, and operation of CommVault Simpana 1-Touch server Software.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have working knowledge of administration and configuration of Windows Server platforms. Knowledge of basic networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

Description
This web-based online course is intended for personnel responsible for day-to-day administration and management of CommVault®Simpana® software. The course covers essential concepts, details, options, and best practices for user security and management, system settings, policy configuration and use, media and library management, job activity and status monitoring, and job management. Students also learn how to efficiently and effectively manage data movement (backup, archive, auxiliary copy, and restore) within a CommCell® group.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to perform the following key tasks:

Get CommVault Certified!
This course includes one free CommVault Certified System Administrator online exam!

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel with responsibility for management, configuration and day-to-day operation of CommVault Simpana software. Additionally, any person planning to take other CommVault Courses should first attend this course to achieve a required level of core knowledge essential to understanding advanced material presented in other CommVault courses.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have working knowledge of administration and configuration of Windows Server platforms. Knowledge of basic networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

Single User License, 90 Day Access

• Planning and designing a data management solution
• Installation requirements and best practices for software components and libraries
• Effective and proper use of available tools for identifying and resolving problems and performance
• Identification of performance issues and options to improve performance
• Understanding of common problems and solutions, and the methodology for identifying and resolving problems that may occur

Exam Specifics:

• Total Questions: 30
• Time Allotment: 75 Minutes
• Passing Grade: 75% (23 correct answers)

Important Note: You have only one chance to take the exam per registration. You must complete the entire exam once the exam session is started.

Please address any inquiries or comments to certified@commvault.com

• Installation, configuration, and administration of migration archiving
• Installation, configuration, and administration of compliance archiving 
• Recalling/Recovering of archived data 
• Sizing and installing a content indexing engine
• Configuration and administration of Online and Offline content indexing
• Installation, configuration, and administration of compliance and end-user search interfaces
• Accessing/restoring search results
• Archiving, Content Indexing, and Search best practices

Exam Specifics:

• Total Questions: 40
• Time Allotment: 90 Minutes
• Passing Grade: 75% (30 correct answers)

Important Note: You have only one chance to take the exam per registration. You must complete the entire exam once the exam session is started.

Please address any inquiries or comments to certified@commvault.com

• DR Concepts 
• DR Best Practices 
• DR Tools 
• CommCell Planning 
• CommServe Recovery 
• Media Agent Recovery 
• Client Recovery 
• DR Senario

Exam Specifics:

• Total Questions: 25
• Time Allotment: 90 Minutes
• Passing Grade: 75% (19 correct answers)

Important Note: You have only one chance to take the exam per registration. You must complete the entire exam once the exam session is started.

Please address any inquiries or comments to certified@commvault.com

• Installation requirements and best practices for software components and libraries
• Effective and proper use of available tools for identifying and resolving problems and performance
• Identification of performance issues and options to improve performance
• Understanding of component services, communications, and processes used in execution of tasks
• Understanding of common problems and solutions, and the methodology for identifying and resolving problems that may occur

Exam Specifics:

• Total Questions: 30
• Time Allotment: 75 Minutes
• Passing Grade: 75% (23 correct answers)

Important Note: You have only one chance to take the exam per registration. You must complete the entire exam once the exam session is started.

Please address any inquiries or comments to certified@commvault.com

• Basic user and system administration tasks for secure data management
• Configuration and management of storage policies, data retention, and protection options for protecting data
• Configuration and role of agents, data sets, and subclients in defining protected data requirements
• Understanding data movement and storage options with various types of libraries and media
• Scheduling, executing, and managing jobs for protecting and recovering data
• Management of media both inside and outside of libraries
• Options for restoration and recovery of data, systems, and applications
• Monitoring, reporting, and alerting on system events

Exam Specifics:

• Total Questions: 40
• Time Allotment: 90 Minutes
• Passing Grade: 75% (30 correct answers)

Important Note: You have only one chance to take the exam per registration. You must complete the entire exam once the exam session is started.

Please address any inquiries or comments to certified@commvault.com

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault®Simpana® CommNet™ Service Manager software. CommNet Service Manager is designed to manage and administer CommCells® and QSMCells by providing the capability to analyze concise summaries and generate comprehensive text based and graphical reports showing various aspects of secondary and primary storage enabling an Administrator to resolve problems proactively rather than reactively. This course covers installation of the CommNet Service Manager software, addition of CommCell and QSM Cell clients and collection of data, common tools and settings for efficient CommNet management, and best practices for CommNet activity monitoring and report generation.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to perform the following key tasks:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault Simpana CommNet Service Manager software.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

Single User License, 90 Day Access

All CommVault Simpana software products use the Common Technology Engine (CTE) architecture. This architecture is the world’s only scalable framework optimized for data management. The CTE provides a common set of services for use by all CommVault products, including secure data movement, a common management console interface, and shared device management.

This quick reference provides fast answers to what features and functionality makes up the CTE and what they do. New and experienced CommVault Administrators will find this handy reference invaluable when installing, configuring, or using the CTE.

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault^® Simpana^® 8 Content Director. Content Director provides tool integration and workflow management for managing both online and offline data. This course covers installation options, Administrator configuration tasks and available actions associated with the Content Director. This course also covers the Records Management integration and data flow with Microsoft Sharepoint Server along with recommended best practices for optimum benefit.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will understand the following:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault Content Director.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault®Simpana® ContinuousData Replicator (CDR) software. CDR software provides nearly real-time replication of file system or application data employing wizards and policies for configuration tasks that simplifies the basic operations and monitoring of data replication activities. This course covers the installation of CDR software agents, configuration of replication policies, sets, and pairs, replication operations and monitoring, and recovery point generation, mounting, and backup.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to perform the following key tasks:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for planning, deployment, configuration, and operation of CommVault Simpana ContinuousDataReplication software.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

Single User License, 90 Day Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with a CommVault® Deduplication solution. Deduplication eliminates storing redundant data in backup storage. Deduplication stores a single copy of the redundant data, and any subsequent references to the same data are stored as pointers to the previously stored copy. This course includes an overview of Deduplication as well as Deduplication planning, architecture, operations, and How-To demonstrations.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will understand the following:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault Deduplication solution.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working within a legal framework who are directly or indirectly responsible for data discovery and search. This course will help describe CommVault’s response to eDiscovery requests, the EDRM framework, and the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. It will demonstrate CommVault’s approach to discovery using the Web-based Compliance Search Console along with all the options that come with it. Students will learn how to conduct searches from a single interface using authentication schemes commonly found today. This course provides a great foundation to a much debated topic and will also cover the risks of not following recommended guidelines.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, students will have a greater appreciation of how CommVault addresses the eDiscovery requirements of the new FRCP.  They will also gain a valuable exposure to CommVault’s versatile Compliance Web Search Console which helps tremendously in the discovery effort. Course topics include:

Who Should Attend
All Compliance professionals, including Attorneys, HR representatives, Paralegals, and other Backup/System Administrators who have a strong commitment to meeting their company’s eDiscovery compliance needs.  This course is designed for people who will be directly or indirectly involved in discovery requests and want to become familiar with the Web-based Compliance Search Console.  Previous exposure to CommVault’s Administration Console is not required.

Pre-Requisites
There are no technical requirements for this course and students are not required to have taken previous CommVault courses in order to understand the material in this class (although some familiarity with CommVault procedures and tools is beneficial).  Students should have a very broad and general knowledge of eDiscovery terms and concepts, including the EDRM reference model and the new amendments to the FRCP.

90 Day Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for all personnel interacting with CommVault® Simpana® Software for job monitoring and responding to user requests for data restoration.  The course introduces CommVault software to new personnel by explaining basic CommVault terminology and concepts.  The student will learn essential job management and control skills; understand how the CommCell® Console, alerts, and reports are used for monitoring job operations; and how to locate data in protected storage and restore to application and file systems.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to perform the following key tasks:

Who Should Attend
IT managers and personnel providing day-to-day operations management and front line data protection and recovery support for users. This is a lower level course than the CommVault System Administration course, and as such we do not recommend this course for IT personnel responsible for the overall administration of the CommVault suite and/or interested in becoming CommVault Certified.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have working knowledge of administration and configuration of Windows Server platforms. Knowledge of basic networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

• CommVault Help Desk Operator
• CommVault Deduplocation 
• CommVault SnapBackup 
• CommVault CommNet Service Manager 
• CommVault Continuous Data Replicator (CDR) 
• CommVault Storage Resource Manager (SRM) 
• CommVault Web Search End User 
• CommVault Virtual Server iDataAgent 
• CommVault Workstation Backup Agent 

(No substitutions)

Prerequisites
See individual course descriptions.

Single User - 90 Day Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for users planning to work with CommVault® SnapProtect^TM feature. This course covers licensing, pre-requisites, configuration, and operation of the SnapProtect feature along with best practices for using the feature. It gives Administrators practical demonstration on configuring, running snap backups, and recovery options.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will understand the following:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault SnapProtect.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

CommVault® Storage Policies provides an in-depth view of storage policy design and implementation. Topics are covered in detail and focus on conceptual aspects of storage policies, retention, and data stream management including:

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault®Simpana® Storage Resource Manager (SRM) software. SRM provides insight into data on primary storage through discovery, trending and analysis. The true value lies in Storage Manager’s ability to improve storage utilization, identify assets and increase visibility into data growth. This course includes an overview of SRM as well as SRM components, features, and reporting.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will understand the following:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault Simpana Storage Resource Manager.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access

Description
This web-based online technical reference library is chock full of just-in-time resources to help you better understand, configure, and use CommVault®Simpana® software including:

Up to 1 Year Access

Description
This self-paced online course is intended for personnel working with CommVault® Simpana® 8 Virtual Server iDataAgent (VSA). VSA provides host level protection and recovery options for Virtual machines guests in VMware® and Microsoft® Virtual Server/Hyper-V environments.  This course covers installation options, Administrator configuration tasks, and available backup and restore options provided by the Virtual Server iDataAgent.   This course also covers the techniques and operational concepts used by VSA in VMware and Microsoft environments, and the recommended best practices for achieving optimum benefit from the Virtual Server iDataAgent.

Benefits
Upon completion of the course, the student will understand the following:

Who Should Attend
IT Managers and key personnel responsible for the planning, deployment and operation of CommVault Virtual Server iDataAgent.

Pre-Requisites
Students should have attended the CommVault System Administration course and/or have at least 3 months experience with, and a good working knowledge of, administration and configuration of CommmVault Simpana software. Knowledge of advanced networking, file systems, and server applications is beneficial but not necessary.

90 Day Access