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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2021
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Srikanth Venkataraman, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivas Kangyampeta, Bangalore, IN;
Omkar Anand Ekbote, Pune, IN;
Prakash Venkatanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for transferring data directly from primary storage to secondary storage in a virtualized network including virtual machine (VM) based storage, by exposing a source volume in the primary storage to a hypervisor host of the virtualized network, preparing a destination volume of the secondary storage as an empty volume and exporting it to the hypervisor host so that the host can the destination volume along with the source volume, and moving, in the hypervisor host, data from the exposed source volume to the exported empty destination volume using a combination of Storage Direct, Storage VMotion, and XCOPY or enhanced XCOPY technologies, wherein the XCOPY technology provides a direct transfer of data from the primary storage to the secondary storage.