Netapp, Inc.

Vrishali Thorat

Vineeth Karinta

Santosh C Lolayekar

Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai

Rajaram Balakrishnan

Badrinarayanan Srinivasan

Shyamlapriya Pudur Raamamurthy

Praveen Kumar

Balamurali Palaiah

Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan

Nikhil Kaplingat

Priyanka Kasinath Surakanti

Kavish Pahade

Shaswati Shee

Sachin Anil Gandhi

Kanthan Ravichandran

Deepa G

Suman Ramachandra

Krishnan Chandrashekar

Lokesha Subbareddy

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 storage services is provided. An inventory view listing a plurality of application objects of an application from among a plurality of applications is provided on a display device by a management device that interfaces with a plurality of application plugins executed by one or more host computing devices that interface with the plurality of applications for managing backup, restore and clone operations involving objects that are stored on behalf of the plurality of applications by a storage system. A clone dataset object for an application object is selected from the plurality of application objects of the application. A clone lifecycle option for the clone dataset object is selected for managing lifecycle of a clone of a backup of the selected application object.

Methods and systems for clone management

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

Various embodiments are generally directed an apparatus and method for performing a discovery operation to determine a system layout for a database and one or more files for a dataset stored in the database and performing a backup operation on the dataset to cause storage of a backup copy of each of the one or more files and collect metadata associated with the backup copy of each of the one or more files, the metadata to enable restoration of the one or more files.

Techniques to perform system management processing for database systems

Example embodiments provide various techniques for updating an old data structure configured to store metadata associated with database systems. In this method, a temporary data structure is created. Additionally, a new data structure representing an update of the old data structure is created. The metadata from the old data structure are copied to the temporary data structure, and the temporary data structure is transformed to match the new data structure. The metadata from the transformed temporary data structure are copied to the new data structure. The transformation of the temporary data structure instead of the old data structure may enable an application that is not being updated to be operational and to access the old data structure during the update. After the metadata is copied to the new data structure, a new version of the application is then able to access the new data structure.

Update of data structure configured to store metadata associated with a database system

Method and system for using a clone of a replicated copy of a data structure as an independent data object is provided. The replicated copy and the clone share data blocks, when the clone is generated. The clone is assigned new data blocks to replace the shared data blocks. A profile for the clone is generated where the clone does not share any data blocks with the replicated copy. The profile includes an option to delete the clone profile and any associated data blocks thereof.

Method and system for managing clones of replicated storage

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Vrishali Thorat