This is a quick post to demonstrate how Protection Policies can be used with Volume Groups to protect Oracle databases on Powerstore.

A Protection Policy is a powerful tool that the Powerstore storage array offers to protect application data, by automatically replicating the data to a second Powerstore which might be across the data center, or across the country.   And it can also protect the application data by generating snapshot copies of the data at a pre-determined time, or on a routine schedule.   

Such copies can then be set to auto-expire after a given amount of time.

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