Commvault changed the default GCP snapshot method from multi-regional to regional in version 2023 (11.30.0) and now gives you the option to choose regional or multi-regional snapshots for your data to help with cost savings and better flexibility of your backups.
Google Cloud Platform has recently published new pricing for their standard snapshots. This price increase went into effect on April 1st, 2023. Regional snapshot storage pricing increased from $0.026 GB per month to $0.050 GB per month (us-central1 zone baseline), a 63.1% increase, while multi-regional snapshot storage pricing increased from $0.026 GB per month to $0.065 GB per month (United States multi-region baseline), an 85.7% increase. See Google pricing announcement for more information: https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing-announce.
Before Commvault version 2023 (11.30), multi-regional snapshots were used in Google Cloud Platform as the default snapshot type to utilize redundancy across regions. Because of this cost change and to give customers more options, customers running Commvault Platform Release 2023 will see the default snapshot type as regional with an option in Command Center to choose regional or multi-regional. For customers below release 2023, Commvault is releasing a hotfix for its 2022E (11.28.60) to change the default snapshot type to regional snapshots. Expect this to be released Q1, April ’23 - June ’23).
Please reach out to your Commvault representative for more information on upgrading your Commvault environment for this change.
