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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
Gabriel Benhanokh, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Ian Wigmore, Westborough, MA (US);
Stephen Smaldone, Woodstock, CT (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A backup copy of a production device is used to quantify suitability of host application data for placement on individual managed drives and virtualized managed drives based on storage capabilities associated with those drives. A data analysis program on a data backup storage array may generate block backup statistics to indicate that a production device or certain chunks, blocks or volumes of host application data are highly compressible or reducible via deduplication. The block backup statistics are sent from the data backup storage array to the primary storage array. The primary storage array uses the block backup statistics to select a particular storage resource with suitable storage capabilities for the data. Highly compressible data may be stored on a storage virtualization storage array with data compression capability, and data that is neither highly compressible nor reducible with deduplication may be stored on local resources.