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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Gururaj Kulkarni, Bangalore, IN;
Mahipat Kulkarni, Bangalore, IN;
Mohammed Abdul Samad, Bangalore, IN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A remote agent for managing virtual machines includes a persistent storage that stores backup/restoration policies. The remote agent includes a resource tagger that applies first tags to the virtual machines based on computing resource consumption of the virtual machines for providing services to clients. The remote agent includes a storage manager that obtains a backup generation request for a virtual machine of the virtual machines; in response to obtaining the backup generation request: makes a determination that a tag of the first tags is associated with the virtual machine; in response to the determination: generates a composite workflow based on: a computing resource limitation indicated by the tag and a backup policy of the backup/restoration policies associated with the virtual machine; and generates a backup for the virtual machine based on the composite workflow.