Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Solutions Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Off-host processing

solutions

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About off-host processing solutions

■ Implementing off-host processing solutions

About off-host processing solutions

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) allows point-in-time copies of a volume’s data,

or snapshots, to be processed by alternate hosts while an application continues

to access the data in the volume. Off-host processing reduces downtime and allows

you to implement the following activities:

As the requirement for 24 x 7 availability becomes

essential for many businesses, organizations cannot afford

the downtime involved in backing up critical data offline.

By taking a snapshot of the data, and backing up from this

snapshot, business-critical applications can continue to

run without extended down time or impacted

performance.

Data backup

Chapter