Solutions SnapProtect

Simpana® SnapProtect™ Technology

Recover Terabytes of Critical Application Data in Minutes

With a rapid-fire, persistent, hardware-based snapshot capability fully integrated, Simpana SnapProtect™ technology delivers the performance capability to protect the largest, most demanding virtual and physical server environments - and recover them in minutes. By creating hardware snapshot copies internal to the storage array, high speed recovery copies can be created with minimal impact on the production servers. In just a few minutes, hundreds of systems and their associated business applications can be protected.

While other solutions are stuck protecting and recovering systems and applications over the network, we are focused on capturing your entire environment as quickly as possible and getting out of the way of your production applications. To this end, we leverage hardware-based snapshots that let us:

• Create recovery copies without moving a single piece of data – this minimizes the burden on production servers.
• Create multiple recovery points throughout each day – minimizing the risk to your business and improving service level delivery.
• Deliver a protection and recovery capability independent of underlying hardware – you can use Simpana® software on whatever storage array hardware you already have.
• Easily recover applications and data, irrelevant of what storage tier it’s residing on.

Using CommVault’s integrated approach means that administrators no longer need to create and maintain scripts and manage numerous storage arrays, technologies and products independently. The management, protection and recovery of application data across tiers of storage and tape becomes fast and simple and occurs without impacting production systems.

The Most Advanced Recovery Capabilities Anywhere

Recover individual objects, files, whole volumes or entire applications - all from within the Simpana® management console. Whether you are running Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, DB2 or SAP, there is no manual mounting, no recovery scripts, and no extra steps needed – Simpana software and SnapProtect™ technology takes care of it all. Enabling object-level recovery internal to a database is as simple as selecting a checkbox in the management console to enable SharePoint document access, mailbox access and mailbox archives from SnapProtect™ initiated snapshots.

With Simpana software we say the proof is in the pudding. You can browse your backup jobs directly from the Simpana console and view not only virtual and physical machines, but volumes, files, objects and entire applications as well.

Maximize Your Existing Investment in Storage Systems and Networks

With SnapProtect™ technology you now can fully leverage investments made in high speed Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks, as well as the high performance of today’s storage arrays to tackle the 24 x 7 uptime and accessibility challenges surrounding mission and business critical Tier 0/1/2 data.

Avoiding Solution Bandages

Many organizations utilize storage-array-based snapshot technology to create point-in-time copies to protect and provide online access to data. While snapshot technology provides advantages, fully leveraging these capabilities to meet today’s recovery requirements often introduces a new set of challenges to ensure that copies of data can be managed across tiers of storage and tape to meet retention, cost, and recovery requirements.
Solution “bandages” often involve a combination of creating and maintaining complex scripting, and having to independently manage multiple products and technologies. These technologies can include numerous application-based “Snap-type” management products, data movement technologies, archive, and backup products that are required to ensure data can be moved from tier-to- tier, location-to-location and finally off to tape. Even then, without consistent cataloging and management across disparate storage systems and tape, recovering this data becomes a tedious, manual, time consuming process. Today, administrators with varying expertise are often forced to recover data back across tiers of storage onto production systems and then manually ensure that the application data is in a consistent state and at its most recent recovery point.

The Bottom Line—
Operational Benefits and Reduced Costs

SnapProtect™ technology dramatically drives down operational and investment costs associated with the management and protection of critical application data by helping you spend less on storage and admin time. This frees up dollars and your administrators to work on other pressing projects, and you can be assured that your data is fully protected and easily recoverable when needed.

Speeding Recovery with CommVault® Software and Dell Solutions

Tie your Dell EqualLogic snapshots directly into your enterprise data protection strategy seamlessly, without any scripting. The Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2100, powered by CommVault® Simpana® software, in conjunction with the Dell EqualLogic PS series of storage arrays, offers an end-to-end data protection environment. And, with Simpana SnapProtect™, easily leverage native EqualLogic snapshots to enable fast and flexible data protection and recovery – all managed centrally from a single console.

• Automatically create, age and expire snapshot-based recovery points, through policy-based operations, across tiers of storage, without manual scripting
• Automatically catalog recovery points, transforming snapshots into points in time that are easily browsed, accessed and restored transparently, from any tier of storage
• Automatically integrate with CommVault Intelligent DataAgents (iDAs) for application-aware protection of Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, Oracle and SAP on Oracle

A key to our joint solutions is automation, as we help reduce your administrative burden, streamlining array snapshot operations through a tightly integrated and complementary approach. With CommVault software and Dell EqualLogic, delivering complete data management for file and application data has never been easier.