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Every mission-critical system needs multiple copies of data. In addition to maintaining the protection of the primary production databases, multiple copies can be used for test systems and for business and IT testing of remote-site DR validation.
Using SnapVX software with SAP HANA storage snapshots of the in-memory database, you can create or refresh multiple copies of the SAP HANA database persistence (data and log). You can create these multiple copies, either full volume clones or snapshots, in seconds, regardless of the database size. When SnapVX establishes a snapshot, you can link it to a target device. The data on the target device is immediately available to the SAP HANA nodes, even as data copy operations continue in the background.