- Snapshots available instantly, in read-only and/or read-write form
- Developer-controlled mySnapshot functionality securely replaces/refreshes selected snapshots to speed development without burdening storage administrators
- Support for consistency groups assures data integrity across volumes
- Snapshots of snapshots for fast, flexible sharing of data sets without the need for additional base volumes
- Revert to any snapshot with a single command, at any time
- Thin copy-on-write technology and massive parallelism mean little to no performance impact
- Freely delete snapshots without affecting peer snapshots
Built on thin copy technology, HPE 3PAR Virtual Copy is a reservationless, non-duplicative, copy-onwrite software product that allows you to protect and share data from any application, affordably. Snapshots are available on demand, instantly, in read-only and/or read-write form. With Virtual Copy, snapshots are reservationless because capacity is never reserved up-front and non-duplicative since changed data is never duplicated within the snapshot tree.
Coupled with consistency groups and support for hundreds of snapshots per base volume, Virtual Copy efficiency delivers affordable, CDP-like rapid application recovery from multiple points in time. With a single command, you can revert a base volume to any selected snapshot – without impacting other snapshots in the tree. And when you delete a snapshot, this never affects peer snapshots.
Virtual Copy also integrates with HPE 3PAR Autonomic Groups and HPE 3PAR Scheduler-both features which are built into the HPE 3PAR Operating System-to automate the creation and deletion of virtual copy snapshots while giving users fine-grained control over the process. When used in conjunction with Autonomic Groups, Scheduler automates the creation of virtual copy snapshots across multiple boot and data volumes with full write consistency across all these different volumes. In combining these software capabilities, storage management is automated to reduce administration time and decrease the chance of human error.