Commvault Environment - Windows or Linux ?

I always recommend people use the OS they are most familiar with.  

It’s completely based on your business requirement @Nikos.Kyrm. I would ask you to go with one which you’re familiar with. 

We have migrated from an IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) environment to Commvault with a Linux Commserve and it seems like every day there is another fire we are having to put out with Commvault by applying some diag.

Where we know it will get there it’s become very frustrating.  We went with Linux (RHEL) for the security aspect

Hello to all @Damian Andre@MFasulo @Scott Moseman@Arunkumar P@Libi 

In case you have MediaAgents with Windows & Linux OS (mix combination) in a single CommCell, it is a good idea?

There’s no problem if you want run both Windows and Linux MAs.

Thanks,
Scott
 

This poll will be lopsided towards windows because the Linux version is relatively new and would therefore most likely show up on new installs.

Personally if given the option I would go with Linux, its just far more flexible.

There are a ton of reasons, but what it boils down to is that I find Linux tools for any kind of maintenance, troubleshooting, logging etc to be more robust.

There’s also the bonus that in many orgs you don’t have as tight controls around things like patching, gpo, antivirus, cloudstrike etc. 👎🏾

essentially it has a bunch of standard windows exceptions baked in.

I haven’t worked on it in the wild, just spun it up locally and found I liked it a lot.

There may be some linux bias in there, but its mostly around the transparency in the OS.