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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Assaf Natanzon, Tel Aviv, IL;
Leehod Baruch, Rishon Leziyon, IL;
Jehuda Shemer, Kfar Saba, IL;
Lev Ayzenberg, Petah Tikva, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a splitter, an I/O to be written from a virtual machine to a production virtual machine disk; sending an acknowledgement to the splitter that the I/O is received; writing data from the I/O to a first differential virtual machine disk; generating a snapshot; allocating a second differential virtual machine disk; redirecting new I/Os to the virtual machine, arriving from the splitter, to the second differential virtual machine disk and applying changes from first differential disk to a copy of data on a backup storage.