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This overview provides general information about AppSync components and their roles as a basis for more specific discussions that follow. For a complete overview of AppSync, see the AppSync User and Administration Guide at https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/appsync/overview.
AppSync is composed of three main components:
The AppSync plug-in interacts with the Oracle application and issues commands and queries. This ability ultimately affects Oracle and the storage environment to make it possible for AppSync to create, mount, and restore copies. The AppSync plug-in resides on the Oracle production host where the Oracle Database Server is running, and any host that must serve as a mount host.
There are several AppSync components that deal with a specific aspect of the environment. The storage services component and the application plug-in are the primary focus of this white paper.