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PowerStoreOS 3.5 provides native integration to PowerProtect DD series Appliances. With this integration, snapshots of volumes and volume groups can be taken and stored directly to a PowerProtect DD series appliance. Because the snapshots are written directly to a PowerProtect DD appliance, they provide an efficient way to back up the snapshots. PowerProtect DD has three primary features:
Creating these backups can be done from either PowerStore Manager or PowerProtect Data Manager. As mentioned earlier, freeing up valuable space is only one of the benefits of PowerProtect DD. PowerProtect DD also provides the benefit of augmenting data protection strategies used in an Oracle environment.