Dell PowerStore 9000T EMC PowerStore Protecting Your Data - Page 3

Contents Additional Resources...4 1 Introduction...5 Data protection in PowerStore...5 Snapshots...5 Replication...6 Protection policies...6 Associate a protection policy with a storage resource 7 2 Snapshots...8 Snapshot rules...8 Take a snapshot...8 Create a thin clone...8 Using snapshots to access hosts...9 Refresh a storage resource...9 Restore a storage resource from a snapshot...9 3 Replication...10 Remote systems...10 Replication rules...10 Failover...11 Recovery point objective...11 Synchronization...11 A Use cases...13 Snapshot and thin clone use cases...13 Replication use cases...14 Using replication for planned downtime...14 Using replication for disaster recovery...14 Contents 3