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Application aware mounts allow you to rapidly mount a database backup
as a virtual application. This approach lets you quickly bring
a database online without having to move the data and without having
to manually configure a new instance of the database.
An application aware mount addresses the challenges of creating
and managing copies of production databases without manual intervention
by database, server, and storage administrators.
Application aware mounts are initiated exactly like standard mounts.
Application aware mounts are particularly useful in test and
development environments where multiple copies of a database
must be quickly brought online.
Consistency groups that contain databases can be mounted together
in an application aware mount. An individual database in a
consistency group can be mounted as a virtual application
as part of an application aware mount provided all databases in the group are
the same application type. If a mount of a database instance or consistency
group mounts multiple databases, then the mount creates a new
consistency group.
Virtual applications can be protected like any other application.
If a virtual application is mounted to a host that has been added
to a backup/recovery appliance, then the virtual application appears
in the list of available applications in the App Manager.
The backup, application mount, sequence can be repeated as needed.
Any one of the virtual application generations can be modified or
deleted without affecting its parent or descendants. Each generation
is independent and can be accessed and its data can change as it is used.
The details for creating an application aware mount varies by
the database selected, see instructions in following procedures:
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