HP StorageWorks XP Business Copy Software - Overview & Features

Overview

Providing both snapshots and mirrors, HP XP Business Copy Software reduces the cost of backups, accelerates recovery from failures, provides deployment flexibility, and simplifies application testing. HP XP Business Copy Software can create full copies in physically separate locations within the array so that accesses to the copy will have no impact on the original production volume. In addition, you can use the space-efficient snapshot capability to create frequent point-in-time copies of important volumes so that you can quickly restore data to an earlier version if necessary.

What's new

• Now available on the HP StorageWorks XP20000 Disk Array - Make local copies of your critical XP20000 data with HP StorageWorks XP Business Copy Software.

Features and Benefits

• Business continuity: You can maintain multiple copies of critical data at local and remote sites, allowing recovery from planned and unplanned downtime. HP XP Business Copy Software integrates with HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access software to provide this extra measure of confidence that your data will be available when you need it.
• Enhanced backup and restore: You can create multiple copies of production data and make them available to backup applications. While the backup application utilizes the copy, the primary data remains available for the production application. Production applications continue with minimal impact from the backup process.
• Zero downtime backup: Both HP Storage Data Protector Software and VERITAS NetBackup have been tightly integrated with HP XP Business Copy Software to provide zero downtime and split-mirror backup solutions for XP Disk Arrays in a variety of server environments.
• Fast restore: With the snapshot feature you can create regular point-in-time copies of production data, permitting fast disk-based restores in the event of any problems with the primary data.
• Deployment flexibility: Create separate copies of production data that can be independently accessed and modified without affecting production data. Copies can be used as source data to test new applications before introducing them to production.
• Cost-effective replication: One product provides multiple capabilities. You can mirror open systems volumes, mirror mainframe volumes, and you can create snapshots of open systems volumes, all in one convenient cost-effective product.
• Easy to manage: Quickly and easily understand complex data replication environments with HP StorageWorks XP Replication Monitor Software, a centralized web-based replication management tool. For enhanced ease of use, HP XP Replication Monitor Software is tightly integrated with HP StorageWorks XP Command View Advanced Edition.
• Deploy on virtualized storage: You can use HP XP Business Copy Software with external storage, providing flexibility to choose the performance and cost characteristics of data copies.