Systems and methods for storage modeling and costing
AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.
InventorsAnand PRAHLAD, Srinivas KAVURI, Andre Duque MADEIRA, Norman R. LUNDE, Alan G. BUNTE, Andreas MAY, Jeremy Alan SCHWARTZ
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for data storage. A hierarchical storage management architecture is presented to facilitate data management. The disclosed system provides methods for evaluating the state of stored data relative to enterprise needs by using weighted parameters that may be user defined. Also disclosed are systems and methods evaluating costing and risk management associated with stored data.
Claims20
A method of providing a unified view of primary and secondary storage resources comprising:
- monitoring primary data operations generated by one or more applications executing on one or more client computing devices in a primary storage system, the primary data operations storing primary data in one or more primary storage devices in at least a first format that is a native format associated with the applications that generated the primary data;
- performing, with the one or more media agents comprising computer hardware, secondary data operations that copy the primary data to create a secondary copy on one or more secondary storage devices, the secondary copy stored in a secondary format that is different than the native format;
- generating one or more primary weighting factors associated with the usage of the one or more primary storage devices;
- generating one or more secondary weighting factors associated with the usage of the one or more primary storage devices;
- determining a data protection service level based at least in part on the one or more primary weighting factors and based at least in part on the one or more secondary weighting factors;
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- displaying in a user interface a unified view of the primary data operations and the secondary data operations, the user interface configured to display at least the data protection service level.
A system of providing a unified view of primary and secondary storage resources comprising:
- at least one storage manager that monitors primary data operations generated by one or more applications executing on one or more client computing devices in a primary storage system, the primary data operations storing primary data in one or more primary storage devices in at least a first format that is a native format associated with the applications that generated the primary data;
- one or more media agents comprising computer hardware that perform secondary data operations that copy the primary data to create a secondary copy on one or more secondary storage devices, the secondary copy stored in a secondary format that is different than the native format;
- the storage manager generates one or more primary weighting factors associated with the usage of the one or more primary storage devices and one or more secondary weighting factors associated with the usage of the one or more primary storage devices;
- the storage manager determines a data protection service level based at least in part on the one or more primary weighting factors and based at least in part on the one or more secondary weighting factors;
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- the storage manager generates a user interface with a unified view of the primary data operations and the secondary data operations, the user interface configured to display at least the data protection service level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.