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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
May. 02, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Sandeep Chandrashekhara, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Michael Ferrari, Douglas, MA (US);
George F. Lettery, North Grafton, MA (US);
Nicholas W. Von Hein, Riverside, RI (US);
Shruti Gupta, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing snapshots of logical devices may include: receiving a first request to create a first snapshot of a logical device; responsive to the first request, performing first processing including storing first information in a cache slot, the first information identifying the first snapshot and the logical device used as a source of the first snapshot; receiving a second request to activate one or more snapshots, including the first snapshot, identified by information stored in the cache slot; and responsive to receiving the second request, performing second processing including initiating execution of an asynchronous process that performs snapshot activation processing for the one or more snapshots identified by the cache slot.