3PAR InForm® OS 2.3.1 Concepts Guide (320-200112 Rev B, February 2010)

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■ 3PAR Recovery Manager for Oracle on Solaris and Red Hat Linux is a separately
purchased and licensed application that provides a simple, efficient and highly scalable
solution for backup and recovery of Oracle databases. 3PAR Recovery Manager intelligently
creates, manages, and presents time-consistent snapshot images of Oracle databases for
non-disruptive backup, rapid application recovery, and data sharing.
■ 3PAR Multipath I/O (MPIO) for IBM AIX is a separately purchased and licensed
application that enables the host to use more than one physical I/O path to the InServ
Storage Server. Multipathing improves system reliability and availability by providing fault
tolerance and load balancing of I/O traffic.
■ 3PAR Multipath I/O (MPIO) for Microsoft Windows is a separately purchased and
licensed application that enables the host to use more than one physical I/O path to the
InServ Storage Server. Multipathing improves system reliability and availability by providing
fault tolerance and load balancing of I/O traffic.
■ 3PAR Host Explorer agents are programs that run on hosts connected InServ Storage
Servers. When a host is created on the InServ Storage Server, unassigned WWNs or iSCSI
names are presented to the storage server. Without the Host Explorer agents running on
the attached hosts, the storage server is unable to determine which host the WWN or iSCSI
names belongs to and you must manually assign each WWN or iSCSI name to a host. With
Host Explorer agents running, the InServ Storage Server automatically groups WWNs or
iSCSI names for the host together, assisting with creating the host. The Host Explorer agent
runs as a service on Windows and as a daemon on Linux and Solaris operating systems. No
license is required to use the 3PAR Host Explorer agent. To learn more about Host Explorer
agents, see Chapter 6, Ports and Hosts.
■ 3PAR System Reporter is an application that enables you to monitor performance, create
charge back reports, and plan storage resources for InServ Storage Servers using either a
standard Web browser or the 3PAR System Reporter Excel client. No license is required to
use the 3PAR System Reporter.