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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Vinay G. Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Ning Wu, Northborough, MA (US);
Michael Ferrari, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
Michael E. Specht, Acton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method, including creating a production Logical Unit (LU) and one or more snapshots of the production LU on a data storage system, wherein the data storage system provides an interface to the production LU and each of the one or more snapshots, receiving an I/O request at the interface to the production LU, analyzing the received I/O request to determine whether a code is embedded in the received I/O request, and processing the received I/O request based on the code, wherein the received I/O request is enabled to be sent to the production LU or a first snapshot of the one or more snapshots based on the code.