Ops Center Protector supports the following Hitachi Block based snapshot and replication technologies, allowing data flows to be constructed graphically without the user needing to construct HORCM files:
- Thin Image (TI)
- ShadowImage (SI)
- TrueCopy (TC)
- Universal Replicator (UR)
- Global-Active Device (GAD)
These technologies can be combined in numerous ways to create complex, block based, data protection and repurposing scenarios.
Ops Center Protector is used to create these data protection policies and manage them after replications and snapshots are created. It offers the ability to view the current state of replications and control their activities. It fully manages the lifecycle of snapshots, keeping an index of their existence and removing them from the system once the user designated retention has been reached.
Tip: When Protector creates fully provisioned snapshots and replications, it does so in S-VOLs mapped into one or more host groups that it creates on a port, so that these S-VOLs can have LUNs assigned. For GAD replications, the user is additionally able to specify one or more host groups that will have a LUN assigned for the S-VOL.
CAUTION:
Anything created by or imported into Protector is managed by Protector and should not be modified or deleted without doing so through Protector. If a replication is removed in Protector then it will be removed from the hardware storage device too.