Purpose
ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager (ACM) is a Storage Management Software that provides reliable high-speed backup/restore and replication capabilities utilizing the Advanced Copy hardware functionality of ETERNUS disk storage systems.
The AdvancedCopy Manager significantly reduces operational downtime for backup and replication requirements in large volume transaction intensive environments.
The product has been developed to collaborate closely with a range of mainstream database environments, including Symfoware Server, Oracle Database, SQL Server, DB2 and Exchange Server, to provide high speed reliable data copies where high uptime or continuous operation is paramount.
Benefits of installation
Using the ETERNUS copy functionality, AdvancedCopy Manager facilitates copying between storage devices both within the same ETERNUS disk storage systems and across multiple ETERNUS in the SAN or remotely located storage devices via high speed communications mediums.
These functions make ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager an effective and highly reliable disaster recovery solution, minimizing the risk of lost data and downtime.
Features
The advantages of data copy using ACM with ETERNUS include:
The backup command finishes within seconds, allowing the physical copying to take place in the background, in parallel with normal operations.
Backup is performed internally by the ETERNUS disk storage systems, minimizing the CPU usage on the host system.
I/O is limited to within the ETERNUS disk storage systems, where high-speed data copy can be maintained. Where Remote Equivalent Copy (REC) is used, there may be some additional overhead but the copy can still be maintained at a very high copy speed.
Backup can be performed in a much shorter timeframe using the differential copy capability of the One Point Copy (OPC) and Equivalent Copy (EC) methods.
Restorations can be performed at high speeds using the same advanced copy functionality depending on the type of backups originally performed.
Provided functions
Advanced Copy functions
Snapshot high-speed copy
Synchronous high-speed copy
Other copy functions
Backup/Restore functions
Replication functions
Backup functions using the AdvancedCopy Manager Copy Control Module (hereafter called "AdvancedCopy Manager CCM")
