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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Bengaluru, IN;
Abhishek Gupta, Bengaluru, IN;
Pranab Patnaik, Cary, NC (US);
Kai Tan, Cary, NC (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method determining a Chain Identification Number (CID) of a source snapshot to be replicated from a source site to a target site of a virtual computing system, determining a predetermined number of potential reference snapshots based on the CID of the source snapshot, computing a closeness value between the source snapshot and each of the potential reference snapshots, and creating a list of the potential reference snapshots based on the closeness value of each of the potential reference snapshots. One snapshot from the list is selected as a reference snapshot. The source snapshot is replicated to the target site based on the reference snapshot.