Volume snapshots are immutable, point-in-time images of the contents of one or more volumes.
FlashArray User Guide
Database and storage administrators are tasked with protecting and ensuring data integrity. Additionally, they may be asked to create a copy of existing databases for testing and development purposes. FlashArray-based snapshots make those assignments quick and simple. Snapshots can be used to easily duplicate the database content and to make it available on another host. The process of creating FlashArray-based snapshots is simple and instantaneous, without negative impact to the array's performance.
DB2 from IBM, a popular relational database engine available on Linux, Unix and Windows, is also supported on FlashArray.
This article describes how to protect a single-partition active DB2 database using FlashArray-based snapshots and how to utilize snapshots to create the same database on another host. The two common DB2 implementations on Linux and AIX are depicted. A typical scenario is shown in Figure 1 where DB2 Host A is the source and DB2 Host B is a target for duplicated database.
Figure 1