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Immutable Snapshots on HP Alletra (Nimble Storage)

  • August 8, 2025
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Hello together,

I was moving one of our customers from NAKIVO Backup (https://www.nakivo.com/) to Commvault Backup. It worked … but.

 

On NAKIVO the customer used immutable snapshots. Commvault Intellisnap seems to use writeable snapshots and I did not find a way to change this behaviour. Did I miss something or is this not supported?

 

Here you see the snapshots on the Alletra … there is a lock symbol for the immutable snapshots and this is missig when Commvault is starting the Intellisnap backups.

 

Regards.

Michael

 

 

Best answer by Jon Vengust

Hi Michael,

 

My understanding is that immutable snapshots for HPE Alletra (also know as Virtual Lock) is supported in 11.38.21 specifically going forward.

 

I believe this has also been carried forward in 11.40 and onwards based on the following announcement post…

 

On-Premises Workload Protection 

 

Data Storage Solutions 

Protecting data backups involves saving the critical information to either an on-premises storage pool or to a cloud-hosted storage location. Commvault offers both solutions. 

  • Air Gap Protect now supports using Google Cloud to secure sensitive information through isolated data copies for Frequent Access and Infrequent Access tiers. 
  • HyperScale Edge provides a single-node storage pool for on-premises data protection with capacity up to 200TB. This can be used as Infrequent Access backup storage for standalone midmarket businesses or as a Frequent Access solution to provide quick access for remote locations that may use a corporate central site for a long-term AuxCopy. 
  • IntelliSnap support includes integration with VAST data snapshots, SnapLock Compliance, and support for HPE Virtual Lock for safeguarding data. 

 

Source: 

 

Please raise a ticket with Customer Support if this is not the case or if you need assistance with configuration.

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    • August 13, 2025

    Hi Michael,

     

    My understanding is that immutable snapshots for HPE Alletra (also know as Virtual Lock) is supported in 11.38.21 specifically going forward.

     

    I believe this has also been carried forward in 11.40 and onwards based on the following announcement post…

     

    On-Premises Workload Protection 

     

    Data Storage Solutions 

    Protecting data backups involves saving the critical information to either an on-premises storage pool or to a cloud-hosted storage location. Commvault offers both solutions. 

    • Air Gap Protect now supports using Google Cloud to secure sensitive information through isolated data copies for Frequent Access and Infrequent Access tiers. 
    • HyperScale Edge provides a single-node storage pool for on-premises data protection with capacity up to 200TB. This can be used as Infrequent Access backup storage for standalone midmarket businesses or as a Frequent Access solution to provide quick access for remote locations that may use a corporate central site for a long-term AuxCopy. 
    • IntelliSnap support includes integration with VAST data snapshots, SnapLock Compliance, and support for HPE Virtual Lock for safeguarding data. 

     

    Source: 

     

    Please raise a ticket with Customer Support if this is not the case or if you need assistance with configuration.

    M
    M
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    Hi Jon,

     

    thank you for this information.

    Could you please spend some words how to activate the usage of virtual lock (inside Commvault … on the Alletra it is already active).

     

    Best regards.

    Michael

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