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Local & Remote Replication

Local replication refers to replicating data within the same data center using snapshot and volume copy capabilities to protect precious information. Local replication provides space-saving snapshots and rapid restoration of failed volumes. Remote replication copies production data to a remote location for disaster recovery. It can be synchronous, writing data simultaneously to both sites, or asynchronous, with some delay of data transmission to the secondary site but requiring less bandwidth. Remote replication enables backup and testing from the target replica while protecting the source from performance issues.

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Local & Remote Replication

Local replication refers to replicating data within the same data center using snapshot and volume copy capabilities to protect precious information. Local replication provides space-saving snapshots and rapid restoration of failed volumes. Remote replication copies production data to a remote location for disaster recovery. It can be synchronous, writing data simultaneously to both sites, or asynchronous, with some delay of data transmission to the secondary site but requiring less bandwidth. Remote replication enables backup and testing from the target replica while protecting the source from performance issues.

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LocaL vs Remote Replication

Local Replication

 Local replication refers to the replication of data within the same data centre or array.

 Snapshot and volume copy/mirror capabilities.

 Users need powerful protection for their precious information sets in business-critical

settings. Local replication leverages the authority of Info trend storage technologies to

deliver snapshot and quantity copy / mirror capabilities to assist consumers in safeguarding

information in the most effective manner.

 Users can readily restore files or rollback information as needed with space-saving

snapshot copies. Users can rapidly restore service with complete information copies if a

RAID-protected volume fails fatally.

 The resolution of local replication presents comfortable and cost-effective regional point-

in-time information representations using clones based on storage and full-volume.

 It generates copies faster and more frequently than host-based resolutions, with no

impact on application generation.

Source and Target:

A host accessing data from one or more LUNs on the storage array is called a production host,

and these LUNs are known as source LUNs (devices/volumes), production LUNs, or simply the

source.
A LUN (or LUNs) on which the data is replicated is called the target LUN or simply the target or

replica. Targets can also be accessed by hosts other than production hosts to perform operations

such as backup or testing. Target data can be updated by the hosts accessing it without modifying

the source. However, the source and the target are not an identical copy of each other anymore.

The target can be incrementally resynchronised (copying of data that has changed since the

previous synchronisation) with the source to make both source and target identical.

Remote Replication

 Remote replication is the method of copying production information for data protection

or disaster recovery purposes to a device located at a remote place.

 Remote replication may be either synchronous or asynchronous.

 Synchronous replication simultaneously writes information to both the main and

secondary locations. There is a delay before the information is transmitted to the secondary

site with asynchronous replication. Since asynchronous replication is intended to operate

longer distances and needs less bandwidth, it is often a better option for data recovery.

However, asynchronous replication risks data loss during a system outage due to

information not being synchronised with the source data at the target device.

 Remote replication is the technique of copying composition information to a primitive

location machine for purposes of data certainty or accident recovery.

 Remote replication may be either simultaneous or asynchronous. Simultaneous

replication communicates data to the primitive and subsidiary positions at the identical

time.
Summary:

Remote replication enables BC operations from a target site. The replica of source data at the

target can be used for backup and testing. This replica can also be used for data repurposing,

such as report generation, data warehous- ing, and decision support. The segregation of business

operations between the source and target protects the source from becoming a performance

bottleneck, ensuring improved production performance at the source.

There are an immense number of uses for a local replica in both data center production and BC

operations. This technology has become an integral part of day-to-day operations. Replication

eliminates the backup window and provides a quick resource to ensure protection against data

corruption during major updates to the source data. Local replication can be accomplished using

various technologies, such as host-based local replication and storage array-based local

replication. Though duplication of data with a local replica ensures high availability, dis-persal of

the duplicates to different sites is a way to ensure continuous operation for data centres in the

event of a disaster that could incapacitate the entire site. Establishing the replicas at the remote

site with replication has now emerged as a mature technology.

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