About Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions product components and features can be used individually and in concert to improve performance, resilience and ease of management for your storage and applications. This guide documents key use cases for the management features of SFHA Solutions products:

Table: Key use cases for SFHA Solutions products

Use case

SFHA Solutions feature

Improve database performance using SFHA Solutions database accelerators to enable your database to achieve the speed of raw disk while retaining the management features and convenience of a file system.

Quick I/O

Cached Quick I/O

Concurrent I/O

Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

Veritas Extension for Cached Oracle Disk Manager

Protect your data using SFHA Solutions Flashsnap, Storage Checkpoints, and NetBackup point-in-time copy methods to back up and recover your data.

FlashSnap

Storage Checkpoints

NetBackup with SFHA Solutions

Process your data off-host to avoid performance loss to your production hosts by using SFHA Solutions volume snapshots.

FlashSnap

Optimize copies of your production database for test, decision modeling, and development purposes by using SFHA Solutions point-in-time copy methods.

FlashSnap

Make file level point-in-time snapshots using SFHA Solutions space-optimized FileSnap when you need finer granualarity for your point-in-time copies than file systems or volumes. You can use FileSnap for cloning virtual machines.

FileSnap

Maximize your storage utilization using SFHA Solutions SmartTier to move data to storage tiers based on age, priority, and access rate criteria.

SmartTier

Convert your data from native OS file system and volumes to VxFS and VxVM using SFHA Solutions conversion utilities.

Offline conversion utility

Online migration utility

Convert your data from raw disk to VxFS: use SFHA Solutions.

Offline conversion utility

Migrate your data from one platform to another (server migration) using SFHA Solutions.

Portable Data Containers

Migrate your data across arrays using SFHA Solutions Portable Data Containers.

Volume mirroring

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