Protecting data with SFHA Solutions in the VMware guest

When you install Storage Foundation or Storage Foundation High Availability in the VMware guest, you can use the following SFHA Solutions point-in-time copy technologies to protect your data:

Table: Data protection options in SFHA Solutions products

Data protection feature

Description

FlashSnap

Volume-based point-in-time snapshot and recovery method

Database FlashSnap

Database-optimized point-in-time volume snapshots and recovery method

Storage Checkpoints

File system-based point-in-time copy and recovery method

Database Storage Checkpoints

Database-optimized point-in-time file system copy and recovery method

FileSnap

File-level point-in-time snapshot and recovery method

Volume replication

Ongoing method of volume replication to a remote location

File replication

Ongoing method of file system replication to a remote location