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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2018
Method and system for enabling data backups for virtual machines reliant on raw device mapping disks
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Shubhashish Mallik, Bangalore, IN;
Manish Sharma, Bangalore, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Rintu Kumar Kanp, Bangalore, IN;
Challa Dharmateja, Bangalore, IN;
Krishnendu Bagchi, Bangalore, IN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for enabling data backups for virtual machines reliant on raw data mapping (RDM) disks to store their state and/or data. Traditional virtual machine backup methodologies pivot on the generation and storage of virtual machine snapshots as copies of a virtual machine disk file, which store the state and/or data of a virtual machine at various given points in time. However, these traditional virtual machine backup methodologies, at least at present, do not support the generation and storage of virtual machine snapshots for virtual machines that particularly access and consolidate information on RDM disks. Accordingly, the method and system disclosed herein facilitate the backup of state and/or data pertaining to virtual machines reliant on RDM disks.