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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venu Gopala Rao Kotha, Bangalore, IN;
Pooja Naik, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth, Bangalore, IN;
Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Debashis Basak, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Backups of workloads in a multi-tenant cloud computing environment are efficiently queued and scheduled. A method of backing up workloads for multiple tenants of a cloud computing system, includes the steps of determining a pool of workloads to be backed up during a time window, the workloads including workloads for a first tenant and workloads for a second tenant, placing a backup task for backing up each of the workloads in the pool in a scheduling queue and prioritizing the backup tasks according to backup parameters specified by the tenants, sizes of workload data to be backed up, and hardware constraints of a backup storage device executing the backups, and instructing the backup storage device to execute the backup tasks according to an order of the backup tasks in the scheduling queue.