Netapp, Inc.

Sachin Anil Gandhi

Vineeth Karinta

Balamurali Palaiah

Vrishali Thorat

Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai

Priyanka Kasinath Surakanti

Rajaram Balakrishnan

Kavish Pahade

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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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Sachin Anil Gandhi