Emc Corporation

Emc International Company

Emc (benelux) B.v., S.a.r.l.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Israel Development Center, Ltd.

Yuval Aharoni

Assaf Natanzon

Saar Cohen

Oded Kedem

Tzach Schechner

Lev Ayzenberg

Shlomo Ahal

Nir Goldschmidt

Tomer Ben-or

A method and system comprising splitting an IO in a system; intercepting the IO in an appliance; determining whether the IO is directed to a replicated file system; sending the IO directed to the replicated file system to a replication device; and acknowledging the receipt of the IO. A method, system and computer program product comprising requesting access to a point in time in a replicated file system; determining from a plurality of bookmarks of file system configurations; a bookmark corresponding to the point in time; determining if the current configuration of the file system is equivalent to the bookmark; and reconfiguring the file system when the current configuration is not equivalent to the configuration of the bookmark.

Replication of volumes using partial volume split

A method, system, and program product for use in a data replication environment, the data replication environment comprising a plurality of data protection appliances, each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances comprising a journal, the method comprising creating a virtual consistency group comprising a virtual journal; wherein the virtual consistency group is configured to replicate a production volume, dividing the virtual consistency group into segments; wherein each segment corresponds to a portion of the production volume and a portion of the virtual journal, and assigning each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances a segment of the virtual consistency group.

Virtualized CG

In one aspect, a method includes forming a virtualized grid consistency group to replicate a logical unit, running a first grid copy on a first data protection appliance (DPA) replicating a first portion of the logical unit, running a second grid copy on a second DPA replicating a second portion of the logical unit, sending IOs to the first DPA if the IOs are to a first set of offsets and sending IOs to the second DPA if the IOs are to a second set of offsets.

Virtualized consistency group using an enhanced splitter

In one aspect, a method includes forming a virtualized grid consistency group to replicate logical units, running a first grid copy on a first data protection appliance (DPA), running a second grid copy on a second DPA, splitting to the first DPA IOs intended for a first subset of the logical units and splitting to the second DPA IOs intended for a second subset of the logical units different from the first subset of logical units.

Virtualized consistency group using more than one data protection appliance

In an embodiment, a method and program product is presented for executing a command in a replicated environment comprising a replication appliance and a production site, the replicated environment running in target side processing mode, the method comprising intercepting the command at a splitter reading from the volume, sending the data read from the volume to the replication appliance; and sending the command to volume.

CAS command network replication

In one aspect, a method of testing a device for use in a storage area network (SAN) system includes receiving recorded messages including messages from a host and from a storage array and messages to a host and to a storage array, sending the recorded messages from the host and the storage array to a device under test, receiving messages from the device under test in response to the recorded messages sent and determining whether the device under test functions identically to a validated device based on the messages from the device under test being substantially identical to the recorded messages.

Testing a device for use in a storage area network

In one aspect, a method includes exposing a set of storage volumes to a host at a requested point in time, in a virtual access mode. The set of storage volumes are handled by distributed virtual consistency groups (CGs) having a background process wherein the distributed virtual CGs update the set of storage volumes to the requested point in time. The method also includes exposing a first service storage volume at a data protection appliance, determining if the virtual CGs have rolled back and using at least one of a central manager and a splitter to account for input/output requests (IOs) when a virtual CG has not rolled back.

Accessing a volume in a distributed environment

In an embodiment, a method and computer product is presented for executing a command in a replicated environment comprising a replication appliance and a production site, the method comprising: intercepting the command at a splitter; wherein the command comprises a atomic test and set request.

Cas command network replication

In one aspect, a method to perform synchronization in a network-based system includes notifying a source side appliance that I/O data is going to be written to a source side storage and a target side appliance, waiting for an acknowledgement that the notification was received and writing I/O data to the source side storage and the target side appliance.

Synchronizing volumes for replication

Method and apparatus to provide a data replication system to receive a data transfer request from a first component at a transmitter module in a continuous data replication system having a production site and a backup site, the production site having a transmitter module and a transmitter credit mechanism, the transmitter module to transmit data over a network for replication in the backup site, detect a high-load condition at the transmitter module, and modify a flow of credits from the transmitter credit mechanism to the first component to reduce or stop data flow to the transmitter module.

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Yuval Aharoni