Emc Corporation

David Barta

Aharon Blitzer

Aviram Katz

Yaron Dar

Michael E Specht

Michael Patrick Bushe

John C Sexton

David Meiri

Alexandr Veprinsky

Hanna Yehuda

Morrie Gasser

Eric Young

Ilya Liubovich

Serge Marokhovsky

John R Sopka

Paul Bradley

Jay S Stevens

Brian Riordan

Joseph Berry

Douglas Leech

Cathal O'Donovan

A storage node uses storage descriptors for provisioning, monitoring and reporting. The storage descriptors indicate available storage resource capabilities and storage resource requirements for particular applications or types of applications using a common set of metrics. The storage node scales requirements to approximate a particular deployment scenario and then compares available capabilities and requirements as indicated by the storage descriptors.

Storage descriptors and service catalogs in a cloud environment

Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer-program product for application migration validation. In short, example embodiments of the present invention provide a tool to be run by an administrator prior to migration to determine a pre-migration policy. The administrator then performs the migration. After the migration is complete, the administrator runs to tool again to determine a post-migration policy. The tool then validates the post-migration policy. For example, the tool may compare the pre-migration policy and the post-migration police to determine whether there are differences between the pre-migration policy and the post-migration policy. Alternatively, the tool may compare the post-migration policy against a changed policy, different from the pre-migration policy, deliberately implemented by the administrator. The tool may alert on differences between the pre-migration policy and the desired post-migration policy (i.e., a properly migrated pre-migration policy or a new policy different than the pre-migration policy).

Method and apparatus for application migration validation

Described are techniques for processing recovery points. One or more storage objects for which data protection processing is performed are determined. The data protection processing includes copying data for each of said one or more storage objects to one or more data protection storage devices. One or more recovery points corresponding to each of said one or more storage objects are determined. For each of the one or more recovery points corresponding to each of the one or more storage objects, performing processing including determining whether said each recovery point is at least one of recoverable in accordance with recoverable criteria and restartable in accordance with restartable criteria.

Techniques for processing recovery points

Described are techniques for configuring resources of a data storage system. A definition for each of one or more tiers is provided. Each of the tiers corresponds to a different class of consumer of data storage system resources and has a different corresponding definition including a set of one or more clauses and a priority of each clause in said set relative to other clauses in said set. Each of the clauses in the set is one of a plurality of predefined types of clauses. One or more data storage consumers are associated with each tier. A first set of data storage system resources is associated with a first of said one or more tiers in accordance with a corresponding first definition for said first tier. The first set is used when processing storage provisioning requests and I/O requests for data storage consumers associated with the first tier.

Techniques for binding resources for use by a consumer tier

A status monitoring and reporting mechanism which distinguishes more significant events and prominently displays events pertaining to nodes, interconnections, and other network entities which may present problems, and to suppresses benign messages which may not require immediate attention, provides an 'at a glance' view of overall system health. By processing and displaying aggregate status events from a plurality of agent components to highlight the most severe and critical events from among a large volume of general status events allows an operator to quickly diagnose potential problems before detrimental results occur, and helps maintain a general efficient system health by isolating less efficient areas to allow for timely remedial action prior to failure. Various agents disseminated in a storage area network determine and report status events back to a central server. The server receives, aggregates, and processes the status events to display a status array indicative of overall system health.

System and methods for processing and displaying aggregate status events for remote nodes

Collecting data for a storage area network includes providing a plurality of agents that collect data from objects of the storage area network, providing a plurality of data collection policies, where each of the policies indicates a type of data to be collected and a frequency of collection, and applying the policies to the agents, where the agents collect data according to the type of data and the frequencies indicated by the data collection policies. At least one of the agents may have a plurality of data collection policies applied thereto to cause the at least one agent to collect the types of data at the frequencies indicated by the merge of all of the data collection policies applied to the at least one agent. Merging the data collection policies may be performed by the at least one of the agents that receives the data collection policies or may be performed by an entity other than the at least one of the agents.

Data collection policy for storage devices

Displaying requested data from a database includes providing a display containing a scroll bar with a scroll tab therein, determining a total amount of the requested data, sizing the scroll tab in the scroll bar according to the total amount of the requested data and according to an amount of data displayable in the display, and fetching a predetermined amount of data from a first portion of the database. The predetermined amount may be independent of the size of the display. The predetermined amount may be less than the total amount of the requested data. Sizing the scroll tab may include choosing a size that indicates to a user that all of the requested data is being fetched from the database and/or may include choosing a size that is inversely proportional to the total amount of the request data in response to the total amount of the requested data being less than a predetermined value. Choosing a size may include choosing a predetermined size in response to the total amount of the requested data being greater than the predetermined value.

Streaming algorithm that populates user information from database based on scrolling activity

Methods and apparatus operate in a computer system for managing resources and provide a method for displaying managed object data associated with managed resources. Embodiments of the invention retrieve a data dictionary containing a master view definition, task definitions, view definitions and managed object data definitions. The embodiments then display the master view definition on the graphical user interface and receive a managed object selection and a task selection to apply to the managed object selection. The embodiments then identify a view definition corresponding to the task selection with which to display managed object data related to the managed object selection. The embodiments then display a view corresponding to the at least one view definition on a graphical user interface of the computer system and obtain managed object data related to the managed object selection based upon managed object data references contained in the view definition. The embodiments then display the managed object data related to the managed object selection within the view on the graphical user interface of the computer system.

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David Barta