Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions can help you optimize your Oracle databases and reduce storage costs. Here are some use cases for Storage Foundation 6.0 products with Oracle databases:
- Back up your Oracle databases on a daily or weekly basis using the FlashSnap feature.
- Clone a a standby Oracle database in a replicated environment for testing or analysis.
- Create multiple database clones for off-host node for reporting or testing.
- Roll back an Oracle database to a point in time using database checkpoints.
- Create a clone of Oracle database on secondary nodes of SFCFSHA cluster.
- Take database backups without affecting performance of the production database.
- Optimize Oracle performance and resource usage using Cached ODM.
- Compress archive logs and read-only databases to save storage.
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