Netapp, Inc.

Rajaram Balakrishnan

Vineeth Karinta

Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai

Balamurali Palaiah

Vrishali Thorat

Santosh C Lolayekar

Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan

Priyanka Kasinath Surakanti

Kavish Pahade

Sachin Anil Gandhi

Kiran Joseph D Almeida

Negi Shardul Singh

Methods and systems for protecting virtual machines is provided. One method includes discovering, by a first plugin, from a virtual machine ('VM') management system, a plurality of VMs that share a logical data store having a plurality of virtual volumes used for storing data for the VMs by a storage system registered with the first plugin and a virtual appliance of the VM management system; obtaining, by the first plugin, from the virtual appliance, metadata and storage layout of a set of virtual volumes used by a VM to store data; using a first application programming interface (API), by the first plugin, for identifying a first set of storage volumes used by the storage system to store data for the set of virtual volumes; and creating, by the first plugin, a consistency group (“CG”) having the identified the first set of storage volumes and generating a snapshot of the CG.

Methods and systems for protecting and restoring virtual machines

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

Methods and systems for providing storage services in a networked environment are provided. A management device interfaces with a plurality of management layers that communicates with a plurality of application plugins executed by a plurality of computing devices. Each application plugin is associated with an application for providing storage services for stored objects managed by a storage system. A same request and response format is used by the management device to obtain information from the plurality of management layers regarding storage space used by the plurality of applications for storing the stored objects and the management device maintains storage space information as a storage resource object for virtual storage resources and physical storage resources used by the plurality of applications for storing the stored objects.

Centralized management center for managing storage services

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Rajaram Balakrishnan