Validated DR Solutions to Protect Virtualized Oracle Applications

The economic and environmental benefits of server virtualization are plentiful, substantiated by numerous vendors and analysts, as well as enterprises increasingly adopting this technology. However, server virtualization places increased dependence on the underlying storage solution.

Oracle VM is a server virtualization solution that makes enterprise applications easier to deploy, manage, and support. As a premier technology partner of Oracle, FalconStor Software offers proven storage solutions that support and complement Oracle virtual server environments such as Oracle VM, helping customers realize the full benefits of both server and storage virtualization. These solutions are validated by the Oracle Validated Configurations program, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and reliability.

FalconStor solutions for Oracle virtualization help customers to:
 

• Reduce overall storage costs
• Instantly recover Oracle VM servers and business applications
• Reap the benefits of server and storage virtualization
• Reduce DR costs with WAN-optimized replication
• Eliminate backup windows and ensure 100% Oracle business application uptime

Enabling server virtualization with virtual storage
FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) delivers an intelligent storage virtualization and provisioning platform that integrates with Oracle VM to enable critical functions such as live machine migration and remote DR. FalconStor NSS provides highly available, centralized, and heterogeneous storage virtualization to ensure complete vendor and storage technology independence while delivering high-performance SANs over both iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC).

Cost-effective continuous availability
FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) works seamlessly with Oracle VM to provide instantaneous DR over the WAN in both physical and virtual server environments. The solution provides integrated data protection, cost-efficient DR, and immediate recovery from server failure, including physical-to-virtual (P2V) recovery. Instant recovery options range from individual transactions, full-volume mirrors, or point-in-time snapshots (up to 255 per volume). Customers can recover individual files, database objects, or entire systems across both local and remotely distributed business environments. FalconStor CDP provides real-time, WAN-optimized, software-based replication and multi-site failover with application integrity optimized for Oracle virtual server environments. By integrating with both physical and virtual servers, FalconStor CDP enables automatic failover of business-critical applications running on geographically dispersed machines.

Optimized backup for Oracle VM environments
Backup operations can be even more challenging in a virtual environment than in a physical one. FalconStor backup optimization solutions integrate with Oracle VM environments to deliver seamless, automated, no-impact backup processes for physical or virtual servers. Backup optimization and deduplication technology further enhance backup processes by accelerating backups and maximizing storage efficiency. This eliminates the impact of media and mechanical failures, enables longer retention of backup data on disk, and accelerates DR processes. Furthermore, as organizations expand into multiple locations, FalconStor CDP can centralize remote backup and data protection for distributed Oracle VM servers, reducing or eliminating costly IT staff and backup software license and maintenance fees. Working with backup applications such as Oracle Secure Backup, FalconStor technology increases tape backup speeds and eliminates the backup window without impacting production virtual servers.

URL to Oracle VM page: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/index.htm

Oracle Virtualization Solutions Resources

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• Data Protection for Oracle Environments

Learn more about the products enabling these solutions:

• Continuous Data Protector (CDP)
• Network Storage Server (NSS)