HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server - Overview & Features

Overview

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server is highly efficient solution for automatically creating and managing hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, point-in-time snapshots of Microsoft SQL Server databases for rapid online recovery. Snapshots can be used to quickly restore SQL Server databases or non-disruptively back up databases to tape for near-continuous data protection. Because Recovery Manager leverages highly efficient HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, scores of snapshots can be kept online economically, allowing extended or frequent recovery points. Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to backup is proportional to the database size, Recovery Manager creates snapshots instantaneously, irrespective of database size. This capability enables organizations to maintain consistent service levels even with large, multi-terabyte databases.

What's new

• Simplifies application recovery by automating application recovery in Microsoft Failover Cluster environments
• Enhances business agility creating application consistent Virtual Copy when data is replicated using Remote Copy in Synchronous mode and Synchronous Long Distance mode
• Integration with HP Data Protector

Features

• The array-based implementation of HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to enable scores of snapshots to be kept online economically, allowing for extended or frequent SQL database recovery points.
• Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to back up is proportional to the size of the database, virtual copies created with Recovery Manager are instantaneous, irrespective of database size.
• Integration with Microsoft VSS provides a standardized interface for creating snapshots; Recovery Manager's advanced scheduler feature provides automated snapshot creation to control administration costs.
• Enables SQL Server databases to be quickly recovered to a known point in time or to the point of failure, speeding up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the production SQL server.
• Can be used to make a range of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.

• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server eliminates the backup window and associated "race to daylight" by integrating with Microsoft VSS to power the creation of hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshots of single or multiple volumes for off-host backup.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, thus increasing flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.
• Integration with backup products such as HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup delivers fast, reliable backup to tape and recovery staging to disk from tape.
• Integration with optional HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software gives organizations an ideal solution for cost-effective replication of SQL databases over any distance to ensure business continuity following a primary site outage.

• Simplifies management with an integrated scheduler, ability to queue creation and verification of Virtual Copy and manage multiple Active Directory Domains from the same Recovery Manager Backup Server.