I am planning to enable the App aware backups for the MySQL database and VM’ which has vRDM. In order to use the intellisnap, Do i need to create a storage array if i m using the native snap engines?
If i use native snap engine, storage array and snap copy on storage copy will be auto created?
If i use hardware snapshots then i believe storage array must be created before i enable the intellisnap with correct snap engine
Please correct me and help me to understand the app aware backups (Streaming & Intellisnap)
Best answer by Orazan
App Aware backups are a VSA backup that uses workflows to engage the native VSS writers of an application such as SQL or Exchange to take a metadata snapshot. The metadata snapshot basically notes where every block of the application data such as a database is. In a restore situation, this metadata snapshot is used to restore just the desired data from the VSA job without having to restore the entire VM.
App Aware backups are a VSA backup that uses workflows to engage the native VSS writers of an application such as SQL or Exchange to take a metadata snapshot. The metadata snapshot basically notes where every block of the application data such as a database is. In a restore situation, this metadata snapshot is used to restore just the desired data from the VSA job without having to restore the entire VM.
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