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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

May. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Cherami Min Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Ming Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Jing Yu, Shanghai, CN;

Arun Murti, Mission Viejo, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 16/217 (2019.01); G06F 16/24556 (2019.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments for optimizing data storage instances in a cloud environment in which metadata is stored and accessed separately from content data in multiple different instances of data storage units. A metadata and content data storage instance optimization process determines the status of different instances of virtual storage resources for both metadata and content data. Full instances are powered down when they are not needed, empty instances are deleted, and data of partially full instances is moved to other appropriate instances to create empty instances that can be deleted. The data storage instance optimization process is provided as part of a data protection search process that provides an execution environment and user interface to the optimization process.


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