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
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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
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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. |
FlashSnap See Preserving multiple point-in-time copies. 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 |
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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 |
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Optimize copies of your production database for test, decision modeling, and development purposes by using SFHA Solutions point-in-time copy methods. |
FlashSnap |
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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 |
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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. |
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Maximize storage utilization for data redundancy, high availability, and disaster recovery, without physically shared storage. |
Flexible Storage Sharing See Setting up an SFRAC clustered environment with shared nothing storage. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Convert your data from raw disk to VxFS: use SFHA Solutions. |
Offline conversion utility |
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Migrate your data from one platform to another (server migration) using SFHA Solutions. |
Portable Data Containers |
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Migrate your data across arrays using SFHA Solutions Portable Data Containers. |
Volume mirroring |
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Plan a maintenance of virtual machines in a vSphere environment using the Just In Time Availability solution. |
Just In Time Availability solution |