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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Colin Zou, Beijing, CN;
Assaf Natanzon, Tel Aviv, IL;
Man Lv, Beijing, CN;
Oliver Yang, Beijing, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Configuring virtual machines for garbage collection in a deduplication backup system executed on a server computer in a cloud computing network, by configuring at least one virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of virtual machines in a VM cluster to be data protection virtual machines (DP VMs), by enabling only read and write operations to/from the DP VMs, interconnecting a garbage collection VM (GC VM) of the VM cluster to the DP VMs, configuring the GC VM to perform only garbage collection tasks for the DP VMs, and providing data access credentials from each DP VM to the GC VM to facilitate the garbage collection tasks.