Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Virtualization Guide - Linux on ESXi
- Section I. Overview
- About Veritas InfoScale solutions in a VMware environment
- Section II. Deploying Veritas InfoScale products in a VMware environment
- Getting started
- Understanding Storage Configuration
- Section III. Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware environment
- Application availability using Cluster Server
- Multi-tier business service support
- Improving storage visibility, availability, and I/O performance using Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- How DMP works
- Improving data protection, storage optimization, data migration, and database performance
- Protecting data with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Optimizing storage with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Migrating data with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Improving database performance with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Setting up virtual machines for fast failover using Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability on VMware disks
- About setting up Storage Foundation Cluster File High System High Availability on VMware ESXi
- Configuring coordination point (CP) servers
- Section IV. Reference
Protecting data with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
When you install InfoScale in the VMware guest, you can use the following InfoScale product point-in-time copy technologies to protect your data:
Table: Data protection options in InfoScale product components
Data protection feature | Description |
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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 |