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US 2021/0004257 A1Published application
Targeted snapshot based on virtual machine location
AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.
InventorsAshwin Gautamchand Sancheti, Henry Wallace Dornemann
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Abstract
A data storage environment can include one or more virtual machines instantiated on a host computing device. Based on physical location data of the one or more virtual machines received from the host computing device, a storage manager can control the performance of a secondary copy operation on one or more storage units that store virtual machine data associated with the one or more virtual machines and/or the performance of a secondary copy operation on the one or more virtual machines.
Claims20
An information management system, comprising:
- a storage manager comprising one or more processors,
- wherein the storage manager is communicatively coupled to a storage array and a host computing device,
- wherein the host computing device comprises one or more processors, and wherein the host computing device hosts a virtual machine, and
- wherein the storage array comprises virtual machine data for the virtual machine;
- and
- wherein the storage manager is configured to:
- receive from the host computing device information about hardware that stores the virtual machine data at the storage array,
- wherein the information identifies within the storage array at least one of:
- one or more storage units and one or more physical locations,
- wherein the information results from a first snapshot of the virtual machine previously initiated by the host computing device;
- request the storage array to make at least one hardware snapshot of the hardware that stores the virtual machine data at the storage array, including the identified at least one of:
- one or more storage units and one or more physical locations;
- and
- request a secondary storage computing device to back up the virtual machine data captured by the storage array in the hardware snapshot.
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A method comprising:
- by a storage manager comprising one or more processors,
- wherein the storage manager is communicatively coupled to a storage array and a host computing device,
- wherein the host computing device comprises one or more processors, and wherein the host computing device hosts a virtual machine having a data store at the storage array, and
- wherein the data store at the storage array comprises virtual machine data for the virtual machine:
- receiving from the host computing device information about hardware that stores the virtual machine data at the storage array,
- wherein the information identifies within the storage array at least one of:
- one or more storage units and one or more physical locations,
- wherein the information results from a first snapshot of the virtual machine previously initiated by the host computing device;
- requesting the storage array to make at least one hardware snapshot of the hardware that stores the virtual machine data at the storage array, including the identified at least one of:
- one or more storage units and one or more physical locations;
- and
- requesting a secondary storage computing device to back up the virtual machine data captured by the storage array in the hardware snapshot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.