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Commvault Cleanroom Recovery: Automated Testing Demo

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10/30/2026
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Today, having a recovery plan isn't enough. Regulators, executives, and customers want proof it will work when needed. Yet many organizations struggle with costly, disruptive testing, manual recovery processes, and demonstrating cyber readiness. Commvault Cleanroom addresses these challenges today. I'll show you how. In this demo, you'll see how Commvault Cleanroom helps organizations assess cyber readiness, automate recovery workflows, and validate recovery in secure, isolated cleanrooms. We'll walk through the full process from recovery planning and runbook automation to forensic analysis and recovery testing. Commvault simplifies recovery planning with recovery groups. Using a simple three-step wizard, you can quickly organize critical assets by business unit, application, or recovery tier. This reduces manual effort, lowers configuration risk, and keeps teams focused on strategic priorities. We've also expanded support for the workloads that matter the most. Recovery groups can include virtual machines, files, SQL databases, and even entire Active Directory forest. Resources can be added manually or automatically through dynamic rules, helping confirm recovery plans stay current as environments evolve. For organizations with hybrid system, this flexibility reduces the risk of outdated recovery plans and manual oversights. With your recovery group defined, you can automate testing and recovery with visual runbooks tailored for validation, forensics, or application-specific recovery scenarios. So let's choose the cleanroom deployment target. We support both Azure and AWS. And for this flow, we'll use Azure with Express configuration. Just sign in, grant access, and Commvault automatically creates the required roles and policies. This helps streamline setup while maintaining compliance and security. And if you already have pre-created Azure applications and infrastructure resources, we support those too. Advanced options and security. Advanced options lets you tailor the runbook to your recovery scenario. You can add integrated threat scan and Windows Defender steps to automatically scan for malware or ransomware inside the cleanroom and upload custom scripts to automate actions on recovered servers. Your runbook is now generated, providing a complete recovery playbook from cleanroom deployment through workload recovery. You can fully customize each step by adding scripts, skipping actions, or reordering tasks to match your organization's recovery requirements. This flexibility is critical for organizations with complex, multi-tiered recovery requirements. Now let's test the plan. Testing your recovery plan is as simple as selecting, executing your newly created runbook. Our integrated threat detection enables you to identify which backups are clean and safe to restore thanks to built-in threat scanning, providing the confidence needed to restore safely. As the runbook executes, you have the benefit of real-time progress, monitor every step of the recovery in real time, and isolation by design. Our cleanrooms are deployed in isolated, on-demand environments so you can test and validate your recovery process without disrupting production or risking data integrity. All resources have now been recovered into an isolated cleanroom, allowing teams to safely test, recover workflows, and perform forensic investigations without impacting production. When testing is complete, automated cleanup removes the environment, helping control cost while supporting repeatable recovery validation. With Commvault Cleanroom, you gain real-time cyber readiness visibility, streamlined recovery testing, secure forensic analysis, and audit-ready compliance support. It is everything you need to make recovery validation efficient, secure, and stress-free. Simplicity, speed, cost savings, and above all, resilience. See how Commvault can help your organization test and recover with confidence.

TL;DR

  • Commvault Cleanroom Recovery automates recovery testing in isolated Azure and AWS environments, eliminating the disruption and manual effort of traditional recovery validation approaches.
  • Recovery groups organize critical workloads — VMs, SQL databases, files, and Active Directory — and can be updated automatically through dynamic rules as environments change.
  • Integrated threat scanning identifies clean, malware-free recovery points before restoration, giving teams confidence that recovered data is safe to use.
  • Automated cleanup after each test cycle controls cloud costs and makes recovery validation repeatable and audit-ready for compliance purposes.

Summary

This product walkthrough demonstrates Commvault Cleanroom Recovery, a solution designed to help organizations automate recovery testing, validate cyber readiness, and execute recovery workflows inside secure, isolated cloud environments — without touching production systems. The demo covers the end-to-end process: building recovery groups that organize critical workloads such as virtual machines, SQL databases, files, and Active Directory forests; generating visual runbooks that automate testing and forensic workflows; deploying isolated cleanrooms in Microsoft Azure or AWS; running integrated threat scans using Windows Defender to identify clean, ransomware-free recovery points; and performing real-time monitoring throughout execution. Once testing concludes, automated cleanup removes all cleanroom resources to control costs and support repeatable validation cycles. The core value proposition is that organizations can move beyond documented recovery plans to continuously provable cyber readiness — producing audit-ready evidence for regulators, executives, and customers that recovery will actually work when needed. Dynamic rules keep recovery groups current as hybrid environments evolve, reducing the risk of outdated plans and manual oversights.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction & Problem Statement
0:24 - Recovery Groups Setup
1:27 - Runbook Automation
1:38 - Cleanroom Deployment (Azure)
2:15 - Threat Scanning & Configuration
3:07 - Recovery Testing & Validation
4:00 - Cleanup & Summary

Key Quotes

0:04 "Today, having a recovery plan isn't enough. Regulators, executives, and customers want proof it will work when needed."
0:54 "This reduces manual effort, lowers configuration risk, and keeps teams focused on strategic priorities."
2:19 "You can add integrated threat scan and Windows Defender steps to automatically scan for malware or ransomware inside the cleanroom."
3:35 "Our cleanrooms are deployed in isolated, on-demand environments so you can test and validate your recovery process without disrupting production or risking data integrity."
4:10 "With Commvault Cleanroom, you gain real-time cyber readiness visibility, streamlined recovery testing, secure forensic analysis, and audit-ready compliance support."

FAQ

What workload types does Commvault Cleanroom Recovery support?

The demo shows support for virtual machines, files, SQL databases, and entire Active Directory forests, with resources added manually or automatically via dynamic rules.

How does threat scanning work within the cleanroom?

Integrated threat scanning — including Windows Defender steps — runs automatically inside the isolated cleanroom environment to detect malware or ransomware in backup data before restoration, identifying which recovery points are clean and safe to use.


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