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5 Dell PS Series Snapshots and Clones: Best Practices and Sizing Guidelines | BP1027
Executive summary
Today’s storage administrators are tasked with ever evolving challenges in ensuring the storage resources
being requested of them by their customers and their customers applications is resilient from recovery actions
and highly available when needed while being aligned to the organizations RTO/RPO (Recovery Time
Object/Recovery Point Object) policy.
This best practices document describes the benefits of using snapshots on Dell™ PS Series volumes for data
recovery to achieve RTO/RPO policy goals as well as the advantages of cloning volumes to ensure data
integrity of the backups.