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RAPID APPLICATION RECOVERY USING STORAGE SNAPSHOTS WITH SIMPANA® INTELLISNAP® RECOVERY MANAGEMENT
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Highlights
Simplify and speed application recovery through intelligent snapshot management across multiple vendor disk arrays. Using Simpana® IntelliSnap® Recovery Management you can:
1. Improve Recovery Times; Eliminate long copy times by recovering data directly within the storage array.
2. Enhance RPOs; Rapid, low-impact snapshots let you capture data recovery points multiple times per day.
3. Reduce Risk; Eliminate multiple tools, processes and complex scripting.
4. Make Snapshots Smart; Intelligent integration orchestrates between snapshots and applications to capture clean, recoverable application images. Supports Microsoft® Exchange® Server, SQL ServerTM, Oracle®, IBM DB2, and more.
5. Virtualize Fearlessly; Snapshot protection and recovery lets you scale VM environments with ease.
6. Increase Understanding; Comprehensive reporting provides deep insight into storage and protection.
7. Operate Securely; Sophisticated user management and delegation allow you to share tasks without compromising security.
Easily Meet Your Application Recovery Requirements
Enterprises are turning to storage snapshots to speed and enhance recovery of critical applications and virtual servers. However, many storage management tools lack the functionality and application integration necessary to fully realize the benefits of snapshot recovery.
To overcome the complexity and limitations of current approaches, CommVault provides a standalone software solution for automating snapshot management and application-aware recovery across multiple storage arrays and physical or virtual servers.
IntelliSnap® Recovery Management is a lightweight solution that simplifies and speeds application protection and recovery without the need to disrupt your current backup software. Using an easy to deploy approach with built-in storage and application awareness, IntelliSnap Recovery Management unifies the control of hardware snapshots so that risk is nearly eliminated, application recovery times dramatically improved, and operational efficiency increased.
IntelliSnap® Technology Makes Snapshots Smarter
Snapshots are one of the most efficient ways to capture data, but snapshots don’t have any intelligence on their own. Brute force snapshots result in crash-consistent data that may not even be recoverable. The lack of a snapshot index makes it difficult to locate information. Orchestrating applications and hypervisors to quiesce in synch with hardware snapshots isn’t easy. It can require extensive, easily broken scripting projects that need to be constantly maintained.
With IntelliSnap technology, CommVault does the work for you. Integration with major enterprise applications and hypervisors is continually maintained and updated, giving you point-and-click ease of use for orchestrating the complete data protection process from application quiesce to hardware snap to releasing the application. Integrated indexing provides a searchable catalog to find what you need quickly. Seamless and reliable, you can count on IntelliSnap.
Complete Application Aware Recovery Workflows
Application recovery from snapshots is challenging, unless you have IntelliSnap technology! Consider a complex database application like Oracle. Successful recovery isn’t necessarily just restoring a single LUN from a snapshot. The application may be distributed across multiple storage LUNs. Log backups – needed for the most up-to-date recovery – require additional recovery steps. Keeping everything in synch to deliver a workable application requires significant effort, and a lot can go wrong.
With IntelliSnap application aware recovery, the difficult work is done for you. Using a simple GUI-based recovery process, you can initiate a complete application recovery, including database files, logs and anything else required to get your application back on line quickly and reliably. You don’t have to be a storage expert or a database expert to recover applications. Read more about streamlining snap management in the CommVault whitepaper, “CommVault® Simpana® IntelliSnap® Snapshot Management Technology: Capabilities and Benefits.”2
SUGGESTED READING >> “Backup to the Future: The Evolution of Data Protection,”1 by 451 Research
investigates the use of array-based snapshots to solve backup problems.
Management at Scale: Knowledge, Operations, Security
One of the biggest challenges in any IT deployment is scale, and snapshots are no exception. To expand snapshot coverage from ten disk LUNs to 100 disk LUNs is a massive undertaking. Such tasks often fail due to lack of knowledge about the environment, inability to scale operations, and challenges with security and user access rights.
IntelliSnap®: Designed for Scale, Ready to Grow
IntelliSnap Recovery Management is designed to let you scale easily and comfortably. Comprehensive reporting features give you detailed knowledge about your environment, letting you understand capacity utilization in order to plan for growth.
Because operations are normalized – one tool for protection and recovery across all your arrays – it’s far easier to scale coverage. A comprehensive workflow engine lets you automate routine tasks, allowing operators to manage at much greater scale. Detailed alerting warns you if anything is going wrong and allows for rapid intervention to keep operations running smoothly.
IntelliSnap Recovery Management provides comprehensive security and user management, including highly granular role assignments. This lets you distribute operation areas and tasks easily without compromising security or inadvertently allowing access to the wrong personnel.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Component Benefits
Broad storage array integration for managing hardware snapshots
Increase hardware choice and extend the value of your storage investments by automating snapshots across a broad selection of storage arrays, including: Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NetApp, Nimble Storage and more.
Application-aware Quickly create and retain application-aware snapshots for mission critical applications. Support is included for Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, DB2, Sybase, Windows file system and more.
Snapshot index for granular recovery
Quickly find and recover individual files using unified search across indexed snapshots. Granular data mining allows object restore from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint.
Hypervisor ready Easily upgrade to all the features of the CommVault Simpana platform, including backup, replication, archive, eDiscovery, edge protection, search and global deduplication.
Future-ready Easily upgrade to all the features of the CommVault Simpana platform, including backup, replication, archive, eDiscovery, edge protection, search and global deduplication.
Professional Services Augment staff, train your team, or simply find solutions to unexpected problems. CommVault works closely with customers and partners to deliver right size, right cost options that enable Simpana software solutions and speed Time to Value.
Resources: 1 commvault.com/news/analyst-reports/527-the-451-research-group-backup-to-the-future; 2 commvault.com/resource-library/1842/accelerating-snapshot-management-and-recovery-with-simpana-10-intellisnap-technology.pdf
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To learn more about Simpana software’s IntelliSnap feature, and how you can use it to get more out of your snapshots, please visit commvault.com/snapshot.
