I am wanting to increase my level of understanding of the IntelliSnap Big Data backup and recovery process. I have searched the Community, Partner University, and knowledgebases, and documentation without success.
Can anyone help with the following
- Provide list of links or explanation that explains how this process works for backup and recovery and the differences between VM, San based Snaps, and COW(Linux Copy On Write).
- COW (Linux Copy on Write) Snapshots vs hardware snapshots, pros and cons
- Are there scalability limitations with COW snaps.
- A break down on what some of the options actually do when configuring the Big Data VMware snaps. The documentation either ignores or glosses over this.
- When using SAN Snapshots from a VM using Big Data (say mongo Idata agent), will I need to present the LUN as an RDM using NPIV. Is there a detailed method for doing this?