Google Inc.

Netapp, Inc.

Ning Zhao

Vishal I Gupta

Gargi Adhav

Kan Cai

Vikas Aggarwal

Rajendra Yavatkar

Jeffrey S Kimmel

Ling Zheng

Radek Aster

A firewall intelligence system, includes a data storage storing a set of firewall rules for a network; a recommendation engine that receives, from a log service, traffic logs detailing traffic for the network and firewall logs detailing the usage of firewall rules in response to the traffic for the network, accesses, from the data storage, the set of firewall rules for the network; processes the set of firewall rules to evaluate the firewall rules against a set of quantitative evaluation rules to determine one or more firewall rule recommendations, wherein each firewall rule recommendation is a recommendation to change at least one of the firewall rules in the set of firewall rules; and a front end API that provides data describing the one or more firewall rule recommendations to a user device.

Firewall rules intelligence

A consistency group is used as a basic unit of data management of storage containers served by a storage input/output (I/O) stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. The storage container may be a LUN embodied as parent volume (active volume), a snapshot (represented as an independent volume embodied as read-only copy of the active volume), and a clone (represented as another independent volume embodied as a read-write copy (clone) of the active volume). A consistency group (CG) is a set (i.e., collection) of objects, e.g., LUNs or other CGs (nested CG), which may be managed and operated upon collectively by an administrative command via a Storage Area Network administration layer (SAL) of the storage I/O stack. The SAL may interact with one or more layers of the storage I/O stack to (i) create a clone of a set of object members of the CG; (ii) create one or more snapshots of the set of object members of the CG; (iii) restore the set of object members of the CG from a group of CG snapshots; (iv) replicate the set of object members of the CG as a single entity; and (v) delete a CG and a nested CG according to specific semantics.

Consistency group management

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