by Nicholas Sweere, Product Marketing Manager, Dell Compellent — August 11, 2011
The release of Replay Manager 6 provides many new features for taking Replays, or snapshots, of server environments. While it can be complicated and difficult to run and manage business critical applications -- such as SQL databases, Exchange and Hyper-V – taking and managing Replays shouldn’t be. The latest release of Replay Manager enhances and simplifies management capabilities so administrators can spend less time on Replays and more time on their server environment.
Below is an overview of three of the new features now available with Replay Manager 6:
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Multiple Instance Management
Now multiple instances of Replay Manager can be managed through a single centralized management interface. This feature eliminates the need to switch between Replay Manager interfaces, simplifying the management of Replays of server applications such as SQL, Exchange and Hyper-V. This new management interface can be installed on a server, VM or a desktop to ease traditional management challenges.
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Windows PowerShell Scripting
Many users prefer using Cmdlet scripting over a traditional GUI. Replay Manager now supports 43 PowerShell Cmdlets, providing all management capabilities found within Replay Manager’s GUI. PowerShell scripting greatly reduces the time required and difficulty of completing complex and/or repetitive tasks when taking snapshots of server applications.
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SQL Restore without Recovery
When recovering a SQL database using Dell Compellent space-efficient snapshots, users are now able to restore the database by recovering it. This new feature allows database administrators to apply backup logs to enable an even more granular recovery of their database – recovery between snapshots.
For a demo of Replay Manager 6.0 click below.
