Pure FlashArray provides primary storage for organizations’ critical digital assets. Therefore, having a strategy to protect primary data in case of a failure, disaster, or crisis is imperative for business continuity. Inherent to Pure FlashArray is ability to create a point-in-time snapshot for data protection, migration, and testing. To save space for primary workloads, FlashArray has the capability to offload the snapshots to secondary storage for long-term retention. There are several challenges that come to mind when talking about a long-term solution which include cost, complexity, control, visibility, and security. To address all these challenges, Veritas has designed the Access Appliance as a purpose-built, on-premises disk-based storage appliance for long-term retention use cases. The Access Appliance provides a resilient and cost-effective solution for the preservation of FlashArray data snapshots that companies want to retain and have readily available for further use.
Key benefits for utilizing Access Appliance for preservation of FlashArray snapshots are:
- Minimize costs – Access Appliance provides a low-cost, disk-based solution that is easy to manage. FlashArray creates efficient and portable snapshots which are compressed, further reducing the storage footprint on the Access Appliance and overall costs.
- Increase visibility and control- Having the data on-premises under the company’s control and visibility allows for quicker restores.
- Security –The Access Appliance encrypts FlashArray snapshots utilizing an external key management system thereby providing a secure secondary storage solution.
- Replication – FlashArray snapshots stored on an Access Appliance can be replicated to another Access Appliance at a remote site for disaster recovery purposes.