Method and apparatus for creating a storage pool by dynamically mapping replication schema to provisioned storage volumes
AssigneeSoftek Storage Solutions Corporation
InventorsStephen H. Zalewski, Aida McArthur
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating a dynamic storage pool for data recovery, is presented. The method may include determining amount of an available storage area, identifying storage capabilities of the available storage area, selecting a protection policy scheme for replication of an application server data based on the identified storage capabilities, provisioning a volume from the available storage area to the application server data, and replicating the application server data based on the selected protection policy scheme for storage to the available storage area.
Claims29
A method of creating a dynamic storage pool for data recovery, comprising:
- determining an amount of an available storage area;
- identifying storage capabilities of the available storage area;
- selecting a protection policy scheme for replication of an application server data based on the identified storage capabilities;
- provisioning a volume from the available storage area for the application server data;
- and
- replicating the application server data based on the selected protection policy scheme for storage to the available storage area.
A storage management and data recovery system, comprising:
- at least one application server to generate data;
- an available storage area to backup the data generated by the at least one application server;
- and
- a storage controller that determines an amount of an available storage area, identifies storage capabilities of the available storage area, selects a protection scheme for the data generated from the at least one application server, provisions a selected volume from the available storage area for the application server data, manages replication of the data generated from the at least one application server based on the selected protection policy scheme, and creates a storage pool of data replicated from the data generated from the at least one application server.
A set of instructions residing in a storage medium, said set of instructions capable of being executed by a processor to implement a method creating a dynamic storage pool for data recovery, comprising:
- determining an amount of an available storage area;
- identifying storage capabilities of the available storage area;
- selecting a protection policy scheme for replication of an application server data based on the identified storage capabilities;
- provisioning a volume from the available storage area for the application server data;
- and
- replicating the application server data based on the selected protection policy scheme for storage to the available storage area.
In a data recovery management system including at least one application server generating data to an available storage area connected to a storage controller, a method of recovering data from a storage pool, comprising:
- selecting a protection policy scheme for replication of the generated data;
- determining a storage volume from the available storage area to be used for replicating the generated data;
- provisioning the volume for the generated data;
- replicating the data according to the selected protection policy scheme;
- and
- recovering the data from the replicated data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.