Symantec Operating Corporation

Symantec Corporation

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Other

Veritas Technologies LLC

Veritas Operating Corporation

Datera, Inc.

Raghu Krishnamurthy

Deepak Tawri

Ronald S Karr

Anand A Kekre

Abhay Kumar Singh

Vikas Gupta

Shailesh Mittal

Kedar M Karmarkar

John Colgrove

Par Botes

Gopal Sharma

Timothy R Coulter

Deepak K Tawri

Oleg Kiselev

Robert Koeten

Robert Baird

Amitava Guha

Saurabh Ramchandra Godbole

Ming Xu

Nir Frenkel

Arvind Arun Pande

Ashish Agarwal

Subhojit Roy

Niranjan Sanjiv Pendharkar

Angshuman Bezbaruah

Michael E Root

Claudio Fleiner

Mukul Kumar

Kumar Sidhartha

Santosh Shankar Rao

Anurag Choudhary

Prasad Limaye

Gururaja A Nittur

Jay B Weinstein

Manikantan Venkiteswaran

Kati Rader

Venkatramani SriSai Ganesh

Ayush Sharma

Múkul Kumar

Ashok Rajagopalan

Disclosed is a method and system to provide seamless data placement, data movement, and data management into the cloud. The system includes a processor; and a memory. The memory stores machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to extend the local data fabric and the services to the cloud providers by utilizing a cloud abstraction layer module. The cloud providers act as remote endpoints configured with a source unit. The process is further configured to implement a data migration in which a data migration module migrates data from the source unit to the cloud providers, and performs a plurality of management activities through an interaction between a control plane and a management module. Then the processor is configured to create a cloud tenant in the source unit to map the cloud providers. The data is migrated to the cloud provider through a plurality of mechanisms selected from at least one of instantiating an application instance into a cloud tenant attached to the cloud provider, and utilizing a plurality of remote storage pools which includes a plurality of remote endpoints as members.

System and method to provide seamless data placement, data movement, and data management into cloud

A method and a system for translating a resource requirement associated with an application into one or more tangible infrastructural resources in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for the resource requirement associated with the application. The method includes creating in response to the received request, an application compose requirement file based on an application definition and the resource requirement. The method includes translating the resource requirement associated with the application into the one or more tangible infrastructural resources based on the created application compose requirement file. The method includes providing the one or more tangible infrastructural resources to the application based on the translated resource requirement.

Method and system for translating resource requirement of application into tangible infrastructural resources

The present disclosure relates to device in a network. The device includes an obtaining module, a storage module, and a determination module. The obtaining module is configured to obtain topology information associated with one or more nodes available in a network. The storage module is configured to store the topology information obtained along with meta-information associated with the topology information, if any. The determination module is configured to determine placement of at least storage resources on at least one node selected from the one or more nodes based on the topology information and the meta-information.

System and method for an improved placement of storage nodes in network

There is disclosed herein, by way of example, an enterprise server computing platform configured to provide stateless computing, wherein each node has no set configuration, including for example, MAC addresses, UUIDs, firmware, and BIOS by way of non-limiting example. Certain devices or peripherals may be considered 'out-of-band,' meaning that they are discoverable and configurable in standby power by a baseboard management controller (BMC) without need for an OS. Certain other peripherals are considered 'in-band,' meaning that they may need an OS for discovery and configuration. According to one or more example embodiments of this Specification, a system and method are disclosed for automatically discovering and configuring out-of-band devices on a server. Out-of-band devices may then be disabled, and the server is booted with minimal resources and a bootstrap OS to discover and configure in-band devices.

Efficient management and configuration of in-band resources

Presented herein are techniques for resolving VxAN (VSANs and VLANs) networking connectivity, prior to server or domain migration. When UCS domains receive a workload or service profile from a UCS Central Controller, required VLANs/VSANs are checked for deployment for that UCS domain in Fabric Interconnects, and once VLANs/VSANs are successfully confirmed, the workload is deployed into one of the compute servers in that domain.

Determining availability of networking resources prior to migration of a server or domain

A method includes assigning a port identifier to a first port on a node and communicating data on a first path between the first port and a logical unit on an active/passive storage array. The port identifier is registered in a persistent reservation scheme for the logical unit. The method also includes detecting a failure of the first path, de-assigning the port identifier from the first port, assigning the port identifier to a second port on the first node, and resuming communications between the node and the logical unit. One implementation of a system includes a first port configured to communicate with a storage device, a second port configured to communicate with the storage device, and an identifier management block. The identifier management block executes a failover with N_Port ID Virtualization commands that transfer a world wide port name from the first port to the second port.

Port identifier management for path failover in cluster environments

An example method for cloud-based resource availability calculation of a network environment is provided and includes receiving a plurality of system error log (SEL) data in real time at a virtual appliance executing in a first network. The SEL data is received from a remote second network indicating system events associated with corresponding resources in the second network. The method further includes calculating a resource availability (RA) index indicative of availability of resources for workload deployment in the second network, and sending the RA index to a management application executing in the second network for appropriate management and allocation of resources in the second network. In specific embodiments, the method further includes receiving a SEL inventory associated with a specific resource in the second network, and updating the RA index based on the SEL inventory.

Cloud-based resource availability calculation of a network environment

Techniques are provided herein for optimizing boot order for devices in a data center environment. These techniques may be embodied as a method, apparatus and instructions in a computer-readable storage media to perform the method. A computing apparatus having connectivity to a network receives instructions from a management device in the network. The instructions comprise attributes that are associated with boot devices hosted by the computing apparatus. The attributes are analyzed to determine a priority order for the boot devices. One or more boot devices hosted by the computing apparatus is removed from an initialization process when the one or more boot devices do not match the attributes in the instructions. The remaining boot devices, other than the one or more boot device removed from the initialization process, are initialized in accordance with the priority order.

Stateless flexible boot control

Techniques for CDP/R services are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method of transitioning continuous data protection and replication comprising determining whether a first appliance node connected to a switched fabric contains one or more transactions received from a host node, unregistering a world wide port name of a target port of the first appliance node, registering the world wide port name to a target port of a second appliance node connected to the switched fabric, associating one or more logical unit numbers of the second appliance node with the target port of the second appliance node, exporting the one or more logical unit numbers of the second appliance node, logging the target port of the second appliance node into a switched fabric, and logging the target port of the second appliance node into a remote node port of the host node.

Techniques for non-disruptive transitioning of CDP/R services

A method for inserting a validated time-image on a primary CDP subsystem in a continuous data protection and replication (CDP/R) subsystem. In one embodiment, the method includes processing data of RI1 at a secondary system in accordance with a recovery process, wherein RI1 is a first image of a replication of a data object. First data is generated in response to processing the data of RI1 in accordance with the recovery process, wherein the first data relates to processing the data of RI1 in accordance with the recovery process. Once the first data is generated, a copy of the first data is transmitted to a primary system that stores the data object.

Method of inserting a validated time-image on the primary CDP subsystem in a continuous data protection and replication (CDP/R) subsystem

A method and apparatus for logging write requests to a storage volume in a network data switch is described. In one example, a switch component in a switch receives a write request from a host server. The write request is associated with a destination in the storage volume. A logging element is identified that is associated with the destination of the write request. The logging element may be a switch component in the switch (e.g., a virtualization card), or may be dedicated logging circuitry in the switch. The identified logging element then logs a write intent for the destination in a log.

Method and apparatus for logging write requests to a storage volume in a network data switch

Applications executing on various nodes in a distributed storage environment may write data to primary storage and may also replicate the data to secondary storage via a replication target. An interval coordinator may coordinate the periodic saving of checkpoints or snapshots of the replicated data. The interval coordinator may determine the length of consistency intervals between the saving of each of the checkpoints. Writes to the replication target from each of the nodes may be associated with the current consistency interval and, in some embodiments, with a unique per-node sequence number. When transitioning between consistency intervals, each node may be configured to temporarily suspend completion of the writes and to send the replication target a consistency interval marker indicating that the node has completed all writes for the current consistency interval.

System and method for replication using consistency interval markers in a distributed storage environment

Techniques for reducing data storage needs using continuous data protection and replication are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for reducing data storage needs using a continuous data protection and replication device comprising creating a master image of material identified by a user, generating a virtual replica of the master image on a storage area network using the continuous data protection and replication device to virtualize physical storage containing the master image, generating a copy of the virtual replica on the storage area network, and providing a virtual logical unit number to access the copy, wherein the access enables a process which requires exclusive access to content of the master image to obtain such access without requiring physical storage for an entire copy of the master image.

Techniques for reducing data storage needs using CDP/R

An apparatus and method for faster recovery of validated continuous data protection time images. In one embodiment of the method, an image validation process is initiated. In response, a first write transaction is generated for writing first new data to a first image of a data object that existed at prior time T. The first new data is written to a first storage. Thereafter data contents of the first storage are copied to a first memory object. Finally, the first memory object is linked with the first image.

Faster recovery mechanism of validated continuous data protection (CDP) time image

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