Dev/Test
Dev/Test environments rely on the use of snapshots and cloned volumes in order to make copies of the original data without risk of impact to the production environment. Everpure provides a simple way to snapshot volumes in production from an on-premises FlashArray, and replicate the data to Everpure Cloud Dedicated for AWS. In addition,VMs are easily replicated to AWS with CloudEndure allowing for the quick provisioning of a duplicate EC2 Instance from the source VM. This solution provides an easy way to create a copy of the VM on AWS EC2 for developer use, while also capturing a recent point in time copy of the user application data to work with.
Once a copy of the data vVol has been replicated to a Everpure Cloud Dedicated instance from an on-premises FlashArray, Purity array-based snapshots allow developers to instantaneously create point in time copies of their data. When an array-based snapshot is taken, a meta-data pointer references the existing volume on the array so only one copy of the data exists; no additional cost is incurred.
This array-based snapshotting has several advantages over AWS native EBS snapshotting (where a full copy snapshot is written to S3 and is then required to be copied back out to EBS when a new volume is required from the EC2 host) all actions incurring cost, both operationally and financially. Performance is also a consideration when utilizing native EBS snapshotting since the data is not physically copied back out to EBS from S3 until the blocks are requested from the EC2 host. With a volume clone, the copied-out EBS volume incurs an additional cost since a 2nd copy of the original data is created without the benefit of thin provisioning or dedup. Using Everpure Cloud Dedicated for AWS in a dev/test environment provides a more streamlined and economical option vs. using native EBS snapshot capability.
After dev and test activities have been completed on AWS, copies of these volumes can then be replicated back to the on-premises environment and changes pushed to production. Everpure Cloud Dedicated for AWS provides a simple way to clone and move data between on-premises and AWS in a dev/test environment.