Storage Foundation components and features can be used individually and together to improve performance, resilience, and ease of management for your storage and applications. Storage Foundation features can be used for:
Improving database performance: you can use Storage Foundation database accelerators to improve I/O performance. SFHA Solutions database accelerators achieve the speed of raw disk while retaining the management features and convenience of a file system.
Optimizing thin array usage: you can use Storage Foundation thin provisioning and thin reclamation solutions to set up and maintain thin storage.
Backing up and recovering data: you can use Storage Foundation Flashsnap, Storage Checkpoints, and NetBackup point-in-time copy methods to back up and recover your data.
Processing data off-host: you can avoid performance loss to your production hosts by using Storage Foundation volume snapshots.
Optimizing test and development environments: you can optimize copies of your production database for test, decision modeling, and development purposes using Storage Foundation point-in-time copy methods.
Optimizing virtual desktop environments: you can use Storage Foundation FileSnap to optimize your virtual desktop environment.
Maximizing storage utilization: you can use Storage Foundation SmartTier to move data to storage tiers based on age, priority, and access rate criteria.
Maximizing storage utilization: you can use Storage Foundation Flexible Storage Sharing for data redundancy, high availability, and disaster recovery, without physically shared storage.
Migrating your data: you can use Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers to easily and reliably migrate data from one environment to another.
For a supplemental guide that documents Storage Foundation use case solutions using example scenarios: See the Veritas InfoScale Solutions Guide.