Netapp, Inc.

Priyanka Kasinath Surakanti

Vasantha Sadananda Prabhu

Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan

Pratik Murali

Vineeth Karinta

Balamurali Palaiah

Vrishali Thorat

Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai

Rajaram Balakrishnan

Kavish Pahade

Sachin Anil Gandhi

Backup of application data associated with an application executing in a virtual machine managed by a hypervisor is performed. Backup of the application data includes retrieving a Logical Unit Number (LUN) identification (ID) used by the application to store the application data in a storage volume. Backup of the application data also includes performing a virtual storage resolution for the LUN ID to determine whether the application data is stored in the storage volume identified by the LUN ID based on a first virtual mapping or a physical mapping. Backup also includes storing in metadata for the backup the LUN ID and whether the LUN ID is based on the first virtual mapping or the physical mapping. Backup includes creating a backup of the application data stored in the storage volume. Application data can subsequently be restored based on the application data that is backed up.

Backup and recovery of application data of an application executing in a virtual machine

Methods and systems for protecting virtual machines is provided. One method includes identifying a plurality of volumes of a primary storage system for storing a plurality of data containers of a virtual machine ('VM'); generating a consistency group ('CG') snapshot of the plurality of volumes; associating a single instance storage clone of each data container of the VM from the CG snapshot to an active file system of the primary storage system; and generating metadata for representing a VM backup as a set having each of the single instance storage clone of each data container.

Methods and systems for protecting virtual machine data in networked storage systems

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Priyanka Kasinath Surakanti