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Figure 3 ProtectPoint data movement
Application/Recovery Host
Application
File system
Operating system
Solutions Enabler
Primary
storage
Data Domain
SnapVX
Backup
device
Source Device
SnapVX
Link
Copy
Production
device
vDisk
Static-image
The Storage administrator configures the underlying storage resources on the primary
storage array and the Data Domain system. With this storage configuration
information, the Application administrator triggers the workflow to protect the
application.
Note
Before triggering the workflow, the Application administrator must put the application
in hot back-up mode. This ensures that an application-consistent snapshot is
preserved on the Data Domain system.
Application administrators can select a specific backup when restoring data, and make
that backup available on a selected set of primary storage devices.
Operations to restore the data and make the recovery or restore devices available to
the recovery host must be performed manually on the primary storage through EMC
Solutions Enabler. The ProtectPoint workflow provides a copy of the data, but not any
application intelligence.
Typical site topology
The ProtectPoint solution requires both IP network (LAN or WAN) and Fibre Channel
(FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity.
The following image shows a typical primary site topology.
Open systems features
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