Standard deployment architecture

Overview

Continuous Data efficiently ingests data from a source host by creating a compressed copy of the data, called a dSource, on the Delphix Engine. The Delphix Engine can then easily create multiple virtual databases (VDBs) on a target host with only a marginal increase in storage. The diagram below shows the architecture of an engine interacting with your organization's infrastructure.

Architectural diagram of a common Delphix deployment (configurations vary depending on RDBMS platforms).

For infrastructure, Continuous Data relies on a Source, Staging, and Target Hosts. The Delphix Engine also needs specific compute requirements outlined in platform-specific requirements topics. Storage Requirements, like compute, vary by host type and are outlined in subsequent sections. Staging and Target host storage is provided from the Delphix Engine, which is mounted over the network similar to any Target host (NFS/iSCSI).