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Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC Storage enables you to view and analyze snapshots in the cloud and, when needed, move them back to external storage. Available as a virtual application within the VMware and AWS Marketplaces, Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC Storage provides access to snapshots shipped from your storage array to the cloud.
Storing your array snapshots in the cloud reduces the number of live workloads running on local infrastructure. On the Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC Storage interface, you can see and analyze read-only snapshots for testing and development purposes.
Once deployed, Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC Storage provides read-only access to snapshots sent to the cloud. You access snapshots by using a separate iSCSI initiator in the cloud, moving snapshots back to other storage.
Although it is not primarily used as a disaster recovery solution, Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC Storage provides disaster recovery capability for snapshots. If there is a disaster, you use cloud snapshots to reconstruct and pull snapshots from the cloud and restore them to local storage that is directly attached to the iSCSI initiator.
Requiring no separate license, Cloud Mobility for Storage also provides multipath I/O support for path redundancy and better performance to ensure continued access to your resources.
For additional details, see the Dell EMC Cloud Mobility for Storage Guide available on the VMware Marketplace or AWS Marketplace.