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US 11,899,957 B2Granted
Cost-optimized true zero recovery time objective for multiple applications
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsBing Liu, Jehuda Shemer, Kfir Wolfson, Jawad Said
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Abstract
Data protection operations including replication operations are disclosed. Virtual machines, applications, and/or application data are replicated according to at least one strategy. The replication strategy can improve performance of the recovery operation.
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A method for replicating a production site to a replica site, the method comprising:
- assessing, by a data protection system, applications operating on production virtual machines based on a replication strategy;
- configuring the data protection system to replicate the applications operating on the production virtual machines to replica virtual machines in accordance with the replication strategy;
- assigning a value to each of the applications, wherein the value for each of the applications determines how many other applications can be replicated to a same replica virtual machine;
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- replicating the applications operating on the production virtual machines at the production site to the replica virtual machines according to the replication strategy and the value, wherein the replication strategy causes the data protection system to replicate the applications to the replica virtual machines based at least on a metric and wherein the replication strategy determines a replication topology, wherein the replication topology reflects which production virtual machines are replicated to which replica virtual machines, wherein the metric determines whether more than one of the applications can be replicated to the same replica virtual machine and where the applications replicated to the same replica virtual machine use a similar operating system (OS) and support a same hardware as the replica virtual machine.
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A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations for replicating a production site to a replica site, the method comprising:
- assessing, by a data protection system, applications operating on production virtual machines based on a replication strategy;
- configuring the data protection system to replicate the applications operating on the production virtual machines to replica virtual machines in accordance with the replication strategy;
- assigning a value to each of the applications, wherein the value for each of the applications determines how many other applications can be replicated to a same replica virtual machine;
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- replicating the applications operating on the production virtual machines at the production site to the replica virtual machines according to the replication strategy and the value, wherein the replication strategy causes the data protection system to replicate the applications to the replica virtual machines based at least on a metric and wherein the replication strategy determines a replication topology, wherein the replication topology reflects which production virtual machines are replicated to which replica virtual machines, wherein the metric determines whether more than one of the applications can be replicated to the same replica virtual machine and where the applications replicated to the same replica virtual machine use a similar operating system (OS) and support a same hardware as the replica virtual machine.
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