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PowerProtect Database Application Agent provides a tight integration with variety of applications such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others, and provides an orchestrated and optimized way to create application-consistent backups. These backups are coordinated with the application and therefore can be used to perform database recovery if needed. The Database Application Agent can also benefit from other optimizations such as compression and dedupe on the host-side, which makes the backup process fast and efficient.
This solution shows the integration of the Dell APEX Block storage for AWS with DDVE using the Oracle RMAN agent (previously DD Boost for Oracle RMAN) for the Oracle database server to communicate with the DD system optimally, without requiring any backup application. The implementation of the Oracle database in an Amazon EC2 instance was set up using a two-layer architecture. The first step is to design and configure a resilient storage layer with the Dell APEX Block storage for AWS to demonstrate how software-defined storage can accelerate and protect critical data for Oracle database. The second step is to install and configure the Oracle RMAN agent on each database server, register the DD system, and perform the backup and restore operation.