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Datadobi is a global leader in unstructured data management, supporting heterogenous unstructured storage and hybrid-cloud environments. Datadobi StorageMAP software enables you to discover metadata about your unstructured data, create copies of your data, validate, and manage your data copies, and synchronize or failover to them if necessary.
Using StorageMAP, PowerFlex file data can be replicated from source to target file servers, and the replication can be configured to happen at predefined time intervals. If the source file server is unavailable, then StorageMAP UI helps to failover to the target file server and the data is made available from the target file server. Once the source has been restored, reverse replication can be set up and a failback operation can be performed to move back to a steady state of replication from source to target file servers.
StorageMAP consists of two important components for replication:
Replication requires the deployment of proxies where the DobiMiner Core acts as the controller of the system and the DobiMiner proxies act as workers. Once the proxies have been installed and assigned to the DobiMiner Core, they can be allocated to the source and target file servers.
For more information, see Datadobi documentation.
Note: StorageMAP supports replication of cold data only. Currently database replication is not supported.