Symantec Operating Corporation

Symantec Corporation

Veritas Technologies LLC

Darshan Joshi

James A Senicka

Kaushal Dalal

Balemurughan Kumaresan

Ajay Salpekar

Sharad Srivastava

Roger H Davis, Jr

Asim Shankar

A computer-implemented method for performing copy-on-write operations may include (1) identifying a write operation addressed to at least a part of a storage area on a storage system, (2) determining that the storage area is configured to be copied before writing to the storage area in order to preserve original data stored within the storage area, (3) identifying an interface for offloading copy-on-write operations to the storage system, and (4) using the interface to instruct the storage system to create a copy of the storage area modified with the write operation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for performing copy-on-write operations

A method, system, computer system, and computer program product that use application requirements, business priorities, and compatibility and dependency among applications to allocate resources among those applications in a clustering environment. A workload policy engine is aware of the resources available within each cluster, as well as the capacities of those resources. Multiple instances of the workload policy engine can be run in different clusters. The workload policy engine can be used in conjunction with disaster recovery products as well as with provisioning software so that new machines can be provisioned in and out of a cluster dynamically, such as in a blade environment. Furthermore, the workload policy engine can be used in conjunction with dynamic repartitioning capabilities provided by different hardware platforms for large computer systems, as well as with performance monitoring software.

Information technology process workflow for data centers

A method, system, computer system, and computer-readable medium to perform root cause analysis of failure of an application program in a clustering environment. Upon the occurrence of a problem or event of interest, cluster configuration data can be obtained to provide a common context for events occurring at different software layers supporting an application. Diagnostic information produced by the different software layers can be obtained from various log files, which are typically in different formats and on different nodes in the cluster. The diagnostic information can be viewed in the context of the cluster and filtered to identify events related to the failure. The related events can be presented in a time-ordered sequence to assist in analysis of the event of interest. Patterns of events that led to the failure can be identified and documented for use in further problem analysis and for taking preventative and/or corrective measures.

Integration of cluster information with root cause analysis tool

A method, computer program product and system that establishes and maintains a business continuity policy in a server consolidation environment. Business continuity is ensured by enabling high availability of applications. When an application is started, restarted upon failure, or moved due to an overload situation, a system is selected best fulfilling the requirements for running the application. These requirements can include application requirements, such as an amount of available capacity to handle the load that will be placed on the system by the application. These requirements can further include system requirements, such as honoring a system limit of a number of applications that can be run on a particular system. Respective priorities of applications can be used to determine whether a lower-priority application can be moved to free resources for running a higher-priority application.

Business continuation policy for server consolidation environment

A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for searching in a server management system are disclosed. One or more search terms are determined. A search is performed for object definitions which match the search terms, thereby determining one or more matching objects corresponding to the object definitions which match the one or more search terms. The matching objects are reported.

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Darshan Joshi