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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vishal Sinha, Union City, CA (US);
Richard James Sharpe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Durga Mahesh Arikatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines, and a backup system configured to, in response to a request to access a data item, determine an access frequency for the data item. The backup system is further configured to, in response a request to store a data item, determine a storage tier at which the data item is to be stored in a cloud storage service, wherein the tier is determined based on the access frequency associated with the data item, and store the data item at the determined tier of the cloud storage service.