Use cases for Veritas InfoScale products

Veritas InfoScale 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

Veritas InfoScale 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.

See About Veritas InfoScale product components database accelerators.

Concurrent I/O

See About Concurrent I/O.

Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

Veritas Extension for Cached Oracle Disk Manager

Note:

For ODM amd Cached ODM information, see Storage Foundation: Storage and Availability Managment for Oracle Databases.

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

See Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions backup and recovery methods.

See About point-in-time copies.

FlashSnap

See Preserving multiple point-in-time copies.

See Online database backups.

See Backing up on an off-host cluster file system.

See Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions backup and recovery methods.

Storage Checkpoints

See Database recovery using Storage Checkpoints.

NetBackup with SFHA Solutions

See About Veritas NetBackup.

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

See Veritas InfoScale Storage Foundation off-host processing methods.

FlashSnap

See Using a replica database for decision support.

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

See About test environments.

FlashSnap

See Creating a test environment.

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.

See Using FileSnaps to create point-in-time copies of files.

FileSnap

See Using FileSnaps to provision virtual desktops.

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

See About SmartTier.

SmartTier

See Setting up a filesystem for storage tiering with SmartTier.

Maximize storage utilization for data redundancy, high availability, and disaster recovery, without physically shared storage.

See About Flexible Storage Sharing.

Flexible Storage Sharing

See Setting up an SFRAC clustered environment with shared nothing storage.

See Implementing the SmartTier feature with hybrid storage.

See Configuring a campus cluster without shared storage.

Improve your data efficiency on solid state drives (SSDs) through I/O caching using advanced, customizable hueristics to determine which data to cache and how that data gets removed from the cache.

SmartIO read caching for applications running on VxVM volumes

SmartIO read caching for applications running on VxFS file systems

SmartIO write caching for applications running on VxFS file systems

SmartIO caching for databases on VxFS file systems

SmartIO caching for databases on VxVM volumes

SmartIO write-back caching for databases is not supported on SFRAC

See the Veritas InfoScale 7.1 SmartIO for Solid-State Drives Solutions Guide.

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

See Types of data migration.

Offline conversion utility

See Types of data migration.

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

Plan a maintenance of virtual machines in a vSphere environment using the Just In Time Availability solution.

See Managing a maintenance plan.

Just In Time Availability solution

See About Just In Time Availability.

More Information

Types of data migration

Types of data migration

Overview of the Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature

Overview of the Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature

Array migration for storage using Linux

Overview of storage mirroring for migration