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Once an application or VM is captured, its data can be mounted.
A mount operation can be performed for local images or remote images.
The management console supports two types of mounts:
Standard Mounts: Standard mounts let you mount just the data captured from
an application. The mounted data can then be used by its associated
application type. A mounted image can be used directly from the
mounted host, or you can restore selected files or directories from it.
The original image is never modified, even if the mounted image
is modified or deleted.
Application Aware Mounts: This lets you mount captured databases
as virtual applications. It lets you quickly access a
database without having to import mounted data to the application.
Consistency groups that contain databases can be mounted together
in an application aware mount. Application aware mounts allow you
to address the unique challenges associated with creating and
managing copies of production databases for non-production use.
Application aware mounts are performed from the backup/recovery appliance
and don't require manual intervention by database, server, or
storage administrators. Application aware mounts can be used for
such things as database reporting, analytics, integrity testing,
and test and development.
Each backup/recovery appliance lets you mount one or more active images from:
A VM to the same VM, to another VM, or to any other host.
The mounted image is displayed as a new drive on the mounted VM or host.
An application to the same host, to another host, or to a VM.
A backup/recovery appliance mounts images transparently to a host or VM
and does not require additional zoning (if that was done originally) or
shutdown and restart of the host. Multiple active images can be mounted
to the same host or VM. Any mounted image can be unmounted individually
or unmounted and deleted.
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