Nimble Storage, Inc.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Netapp, Inc.

Ajay Singh

Vikas Gupta

Varun Mehta

Rod Bagg

Dan Leary

Hector Yuen

Yuval Frandzel

Andrew Narver

Joseph White

A storage management application of a storage array is operable to create a new volume on the storage device array, and to automatically configure, responsive to user selection of an application protection profile, data protection services for application data to be stored on the volume, and/or, responsive to user selection of an application performance profile, application specific performance parameters. The application protection profile specifies scheduling and replication of snapshots for application data to be stored on the volume, and the application performance profile specifies performance parameters such as setting a block size, enabling or modifying a data caching algorithm, turning on or modifying data compression, etc. The scheduling, replication and/or application performance may be managed by a daemon associated with the storage management application which communicates with an agent associated with an application server on which the application executes.

Methods and systems for managing the replication of snapshots on a storage array

Methods and systems for managing the scheduling of snapshots on a storage array

Unified management of storage and application consistent snapshots

Embodiments of the present invention provide mechanisms for improving storage consumption on a sequential access medium, such as a physical tape, by preferably storing one instance of a data block of a backup data set on the tape media. When another instance of a data block is received having the same pattern as the stored data block, rather than storing the data block itself, a reference to the data block is stored on the sequential access medium. When data are restored, data blocks are cached at a block store on a storage device(s) having a faster seek time than the tape. When a reference to a previously stored data block is read from the tape, rather than re-winding the tape to search for the data block on the tape (which might take a long time to locate), the referenced data block can be found on the storage device having a faster seek time than the tape media.

De-duplication of data stored on tape media

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Ajay Singh