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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2017
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Mikhail Tolstoy, Saint Petersburg, RU;

Karyn Kelley, Peabody, MA (US);

Larry McCloskey, Billerica, MA (US);

Igor Matveevskiy, Saint Petersburg, RU;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanism for non-disruptive virtual tape drives removal and reconfiguration. Specifically, the introduction of various additional computer processes permit the removal and reconfiguration of a virtual tape drive without requiring the shutdown and re-initialization of the host application on which the virtual tape drive is being emulated.


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