Copy Data Management
Copy data management addresses the following scenarios for your virtual and physical workloads:
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Certifying that your backups fulfill the requirements specified in your business continuity plan by testing for RPO/RTO compliance, malware infection, and application behavior in a failover scenario. |
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Orchestrating failover from certified recovery points in the event of a disaster. |
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Accessing production data as fully functional VMs contained within isolated testing labs. These instant labs enable you to scan for malware, perform update testing, run compute intensive reports, and perform business analytics operations without impacting your production environment. |
Copy data management functionality is provided through the data copy access job type. Data copy access jobs run in three modes that directly correspond to the three scenarios described above.
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Run Test - This is the default mode for data copy access jobs and can be configured to run on a schedule. VMs stood up by this mode are automatically torn down after testing is complete. |
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Failover - This mode is used to orchestrate failover to your recovery network. This mode cannot be configured to run on a schedule. |
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Instant Lab - This mode is used to stand up VMs that remain on your test network until they are manually torn down. This mode cannot be configured to run on a schedule. |
For further information on copy data management, see the following topics: