Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Dell Products Inc.

Mohammed Abdul Samad

Shelesh Chopra

Prakash Appayya Acharya

Vladimir Mandic

Gururaj Reddy Kulkarni

Mahipat Rao Kulkarni

Dening Xu

Sharath Talkad Srinivasan

Mahesh Rao

Shahid Paloth Parambil

Jafarullah Noordeen

Chandrakantha T Nagaraja

Paloth Parambil Shahid

Pradeep Kumar Tulagapu

Pavankumar Ati

Rajiv Aradhyula

Krishna Tn

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing upgrades of backup agents in a data cluster. The method may include identifying, by a data protection manager, a backup agent upgrade event associated with a backup agent type of backup agent types and a data cluster that includes production hosts that execute virtual machines (VMs); in response to identifying the backup agent upgrade event: obtaining production host information associated with the production hosts; obtaining protection policy information associated with the production hosts; generating an upgrade schedule specifying a portion of production hosts associated with backup agent upgrades of backup agents of the backup agent type using the production host information and the protection policy information; and initiating performance of backup agent upgrades on the portion of production hosts based on the upgrade schedule.

Scheduling and prioritizing upgrades in a data cluster

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying a discovery event associated with a data cluster; sending a request for currently deployed data cluster components to a data cluster manager associated with the data cluster; obtaining data cluster component inventory information associated with the data cluster from the data cluster manager; making a first determination that the currently deployed data cluster components comprise changed data cluster components using the data cluster component inventory information; mapping protection policy types to newly deployed data cluster components of the data cluster using the data cluster component inventory information and component data protection information; updating a data cluster component inventory repository using the data cluster component inventory information; and initiating performance of data protection services for the newly deployed data cluster components based on the mapped protection policy types.

Method and system for continuous mapping of protection policies to data cluster components

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying a discovery event associated with a data cluster; sending a request for currently deployed components to a data cluster manager associated with the data cluster; obtaining data cluster component inventory information associated with the data cluster from the data cluster manager; mapping data protection policies to data cluster components of the data cluster using the data cluster component inventory information and component data protection information; mapping backup types to the data cluster components using the data cluster component inventory information and the component data protection information; updating a data cluster component inventory repository using the data cluster component inventory information; and initiating performance of data protection services for the data cluster components based on the mapped data protection policies and the mapped backup types.

Method and system for mapping data protection services to data cluster components

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying, by a mapping module of a data protection manager, a first discovery event associated with a first data cluster; in response to identifying the first discovery event: obtaining first data cluster topology information associated with the first data cluster from the first data cluster; obtaining data cluster data protection information from a data cluster data protection information repository; mapping first protection policies to the first data cluster using the first data cluster topology information and the data cluster data protection information; updating data cluster topology information protection policy mappings using the using the first data cluster topology information and the data cluster data protection information; and initiating performance of first data protection services for the first data cluster based on the first mapped protection policies.

Method and system for mapping data protection policies to data clusters

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying, by a mapping module of a data protection manager, an initial discovery event associated with a data cluster; in response to identifying the discovery event, by the mapping module: sending a request for currently deployed components to a data cluster manager associated with the data cluster; obtaining data cluster component inventory information associated with the data cluster from the data cluster manager; mapping protection policy types to data cluster components of the data cluster using the data cluster component inventory information and component data protection information; and initiating performance of data protection services for the data cluster components based on the mapped protection policy types.

Method and system for mapping protection policies to data cluster components

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying, by a data protection manager, a migration event associated with a first data cluster; in response to identifying the migration event: identifying a second data cluster capable of hosting the first data cluster using data cluster topology information and data cluster component inventory information associated with the first data cluster; generating a dependency map associated with the second data cluster based on the first data cluster; identifying a migration sequence based on the dependency map; initiating data cluster components of the second data cluster to perform migration of the first data cluster; and migrating the first data cluster to the second data cluster.

Method and system for migrating data clusters using heterogeneous data cluster infrastructures

A method for restoring virtual machines in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention includes obtaining, by a data protection manager, a restoration request, and in response to the restoration request: identifying a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to restore based on the restoration request, determining a restoration process based on the plurality of virtual machines, and initiating a deployment of a production agent based on the restoration process, wherein the production agent initiates a restoration on at least a portion of the plurality of VMs.

Restorations of virtual machines in virtual systems using a restoration policy

A remote agent for managing resources includes a persistent storage that stores disaster recovery policies keyed to tags applied to the resources and a resource tagger that identifies a change in a resource; in response to identifying the change: performs an application priority analysis of the resource to identify a first tag based on the change in the resource; performs an interaction frequency analysis of the applications of the resource to identify a second tag; tags the resource with a tag; and performs a disaster recovery for the resource using a disaster recovery policy of the disaster recovery policies that is keyed to the tag.

System and method for tag based backup infrastructure

A method and system for reliably restoring virtual machines. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein enable virtual machine recovery, on a target computing system, indirectly through a connection to a central administration point. When the central administration point becomes unreachable, thereby interrupting the virtual machine recovery process, the method and system disclosed herein further facilitate directly connecting with the target computing system (bypassing the central administration point) in order to continue and complete the virtual machine recovery process.

Method and system for reliably restoring virtual machines

A method for performing backup operations includes identifying a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to back up, grouping the plurality of VMs to obtain a plurality of VM groups, and initiating a configuration of a production agent on a production host associated with a first VM group of the plurality of VM groups, wherein the configured first production agent initiates a backup operation on at least the first VM group.

System and method for backup of virtual machines organized using logical layers

A remote agent for managing virtual machines includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backup/restoration policies. The backup manager generates backups of the virtual machines based on the backup/restoration policies. The remote agent also includes a resource tagger that obtains a management request for a virtual machine of the virtual machines; in response to obtaining the management request: performs a remote resource analysis of the virtual machine to obtain an application profile of the virtual machine; performs a multidimensional application analysis of the application profile to identify at least one tag; and applies the at least one tag to the virtual machine.

System and method for virtual machine resource tagging

A remote agent for managing virtual machines includes a persistent storage that stores backup/restoration policies. The remote agent includes a resource tagger that applies first tags to the virtual machines based on computing resource consumption of the virtual machines for providing services to clients. The remote agent includes a storage manager that obtains a backup generation request for a virtual machine of the virtual machines; in response to obtaining the backup generation request: makes a determination that a tag of the first tags is associated with the virtual machine; in response to the determination: generates a composite workflow based on: a computing resource limitation indicated by the tag and a backup policy of the backup/restoration policies associated with the virtual machine; and generates a backup for the virtual machine based on the composite workflow.

System and method for consumption based tagging of resources

Data protection compliance between virtual machines' storage policies and backup policies is described. A compliance tool identifies a storage policy associated with a virtual machine storage management tool and a virtual machine. The compliance tool identifies a backup policy associated with the virtual machine. If the compliance tool determines that the backup policy has a data protection capability that is missing from the storage policy, the compliance tool outputs a report which indicates that the backup policy has the data protection capability that is missing from the storage policy.

Data protection compliance between storage and backup policies of virtual machines

Providing backup of virtual machines can be performed by a backup server. The backup server can maintain log-in credentials for a central management server and a virtual machine host. If communication is lost between the backup server and the central management server, the backup server can initialize a connection directly to the host and back up a target virtual machine.

Broken point continuous backup in virtual datacenter

Offloaded data protection based on virtual machine snapshots is described. A system identifies a virtual machine associated with a backup application. The system identifies a storage identifier associated with a virtual machine storage management tool and the virtual machine. The system creates a snapshot of the virtual machine and an identifier of the snapshot by prompting a storage array, which is associated with the virtual machine storage management tool, with the storage identifier. The system mounts the snapshot to a proxy server. The system creates a backup based on the snapshot by prompting the backup application with the identifier of the snapshot.

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