Business benefits, Feature highlights, Business benefits feature highlights – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual

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If you use the HP DKA Encryption License Key, you can create a ShadowImage for Mainframe
pair by using an encrypted volume and a non-encrypted volume. For example, you can create the
pair specifying an encrypted volume as the S-VOL and a non-encrypted volume as the T-VOL. In
this case, data in the encrypted S-VOL will be copied as non-encrypted data in the non-encrypted
T-VOL.

Business Benefits

Ensure Business Continuity

Shortens restart and recovery times with the consistency-group function, which provides
multivolume, point-in-time copies for applications and databases that share or span multiple
volumes

Reduces recovery from data corruption time dramatically through the ShadowImage for
Mainframe QuickRestore feature, which allows an immediate restore to a disk-resident,
point-in-time data copy

Replicates large data volumes without having an impact on service levels, timing out, or
affecting performance levels

Improve Productivity and Processes

Reduces testing and deployment time and increases the accuracy of application development
by providing always-available copies of current production data

Increases competitive advantage through the ShadowImage for Mainframe QuickSplit function
by facilitating the sharing of and immediate access to time-critical information for decision
support, populating data warehouses, performing analysis, or other data-mining operations

Enables normal backup operations on a copy of up-to-date production data while critical
applications continue to run unaffected

Simplifies data migration between storage systems Reduce Operational and Capital Costs

Allows business to remain online during data center activities, eliminating the need for 24/7
resources to perform these tasks

Maximizes the storage infrastructure by leveraging the virtualization capabilities of the XP
disk array

Allows the use of cost-effective storage for enhanced data protection purposes

Feature Highlights

CTGs. For XP disk array storage systems, the ShadowImage for Mainframe software
consistency-group function allows a user-defined group of ShadowImage for Mainframe volume
pairs to be split simultaneously, at a precise moment in time, with a single command. This copy
method creates a consistent point-in-time copy of an entire system, database, or any related sets
of volumes—a technique that can replicate data between a primary system and secondary systems
anywhere in the world, with full data integrity.

Business Benefits

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