“Well, I know this much: we can’t avoid the future.” – Commander William T. Riker, Star Trek – The Next Generation
The IT landscape continues to evolve, and initiatives to protect workloads now extend beyond IT-driven application restores and disaster recovery scenarios. This certainly holds true in today’s Oracle database universe, as enterprises demand uninterrupted database operations with minimum downtime service-level agreements (SLAs). These backup requirements have transcended IT teams and have crossed over to application and data owners – such as Database Administers (DBAs) – who aspire to do more than simply restore their data. To address these requirements, PowerProtect Data Manager (Data Manager) is at the forefront of this transformation to modern enterprise data protection.
Designed with operational simplicity and agility in mind, Data Manager enables the protection of traditional workloads including Oracle, Exchange, SQL, SAP HANA and filesystems, as well as Kubernetes containers and virtual environments – both on-premises or in the cloud.
With expanding data environments, multicloud complexity and backup and restore inefficiencies, enterprises seek a data protection platform that consolidates and simplifies the backup and restoration process for mission-critical applications like Oracle.
PowerProtect Data Manager for Oracle
Enterprises and government entities worldwide run Oracle databases to support their most mission-critical applications. Not only are these applications the least tolerant of downtime, but they also generate some of the highest growth rates. To address this, many organizations perform full Oracle backups on a nightly basis, together with an incremental backup strategy. The trouble is, to meet their data recovery requirements, many businesses must store their backups for 30 days or more, which over time can lead to exponential growth in disk capacity and challenges meeting IT- and business-driven SLAs. This is where the value of Data Manager truly comes in.
By integrating with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), Data Manager enables users to perform centralized Oracle restores from the Data Manager UI when the Oracle Server data has been backed up through a protection policy. From there, Data Manager provides the ability to centrally schedule backups. This centralized Oracle protection process with Data Manager can be applied to restore and recover a full online database, restore only archive logs or perform disaster recovery of an entire database.
Additionally, Data Manager extends enterprise data protection capabilities for Oracle environments with support for Oracle Data Guard in either standalone mode or federated mode. This provides enhanced Oracle backups and restores in a high-availability Data Guard environment through the Data Manager UI and unified Oracle RMAN agent workflows.
On top of that, the latest release of Data Manager has also added integration with Oracle Incremental Merge (OIM), which uses Oracle image copy-based technology to create exact copies of data files as “forever incrementals.” This allows for the creation of synthesized full backups at the cost of an incremental backup, resulting in quicker Oracle backups with better dedupe ratios and faster recoveries.
Next-generation Oracle Data Protection
Data Manager provides enterprise Oracle customers the ability to streamline, automate and optimize database data protection processes. By doing so, users can meet – and even surpass – business and IT service levels for database availability and disaster recovery, whether it be locally, off-site between data centers or in the cloud. With Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, enterprise customers can confidently look to the next frontier in terms of data protection for mission-critical databases.
To learn more, see our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager website.
