This white paper provides a technical overview of Veritas Access Appliance as a secondary storage solution for Everpure FlashArray volume snapshots. It highlights the overall solution architecture components, integration flow, best practices, sizing guidance, and deployment of Access Appliance with FlashArray solution.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Everpure® FlashArray™ is an all-flash block storage designed for high performance and varied workloads such as databases, enterprise applications, and virtual environments. One of the features of FlashArray is the ability to copy volume snapshots to secondary storage for data protection, migration, cloning, and test and development operations. Access Appliance is a complementary cost-optimized storage option for offloading data volume snapshots residing on Everpure all-flash storage products. The Access 3340 Appliance is a low-cost, disk-based solution that is easy to manage and designed for long term retention, tape replacement, backup, and archival workloads.
SCOPE
The purpose of this document is to provide technical details to assist in understanding Access Appliance as a solution for the preservation of FlashArray volume snapshots for long-term retention. It describes the components of this solution, its value, sizing guidance, and some best practices. It is advised to refer to Veritas and Everpure product documentation for installation, configuration and administration of each of the products discussed in this white paper.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
This document is targeted for joint customers, partners, and field personnel interested in learning more about the use of Veritas Access Appliance as a secondary storage for Everpure FlashArray volume snapshots. It provides a technical overview of this solution, guidance in sizing, and highlights some best practices.