HP 3PAR Recovery Manager for Oracle -
Overview & Features

Overview

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Oracle is a highly efficient solution for automatically creating and managing hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, point-in-time snapshots of Oracle and Oracle RAC databases for rapid online recovery. These snapshot images are then presentable to other Oracle database instances, managed from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host. With Recovery Manager, administrators can quickly and simply recover a database to a known point in time, speeding up a variety of operations including the rapid recovery of the Oracle production server. Integration with Oracle Active Data Guard enables snapshots to be taken on standby databases, thus minimizing impact to the production database. Fast, reliable backup and recovery to tape is made possible through integration with Symantec NetBackup.

What's new

• Simplifies management with an integrated scheduler to create Virtual Copy
• Enhances business agility creating application consistent Virtual Copy when data is replicated using Remote Copy in Synchronous mode and Synchronous Long Distance mode

Features

• Array-based approach leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to create highly space-efficient snapshots that enable Oracle logs to be replayed for up-to-the-minute database recovery, speeding up a variety of operations including the rapid application recovery of the Oracle production server itself.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host.
• Can be used to make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Works with optional HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software to safeguard disk-based backups, eliminating the need to perform redundant tape backups to protect against accidental or malicious deletion of disk-based backups.
• Integration with Symantec NetBackup intelligently presents Oracle snapshots to the NetBackup server as a class or policy so that backup jobs do not require reconfiguration, thus eliminating the need for custom scripting or costly consulting services otherwise necessary to achieve the same result.

• Eliminates the backup window and associated "race to daylight" by powering hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshot images of production Oracle and Oracle RAC databases.
• Autonomically discovers and intelligently maps all database elements (including table spaces, data files, control files, parameter files, and archive log files) to associated snapshots.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, thereby increasing flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or by directly and instantaneously mounting the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.
• Integrated with Oracle Data Guard to provide application-level disaster recovery on the host in Oracle Data Guard and Active Data Guard environments, which enables organizations to take snapshots of standby databases instead of production databases.