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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2020
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Sharath Talkad Srinivasan, Bengaluru, IN;
Rakesh Kumar, Bengaluru, IN;
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for virtual machine protection. Specifically, the disclosed method and system dynamically protect virtual machine state from impactful events, such as accidental virtual machine deletions and shutdowns. The disclosed method and system work to stall the fulfillment of these impactful events while instigating the backup of protected virtual machine state, and thereafter, only permit these impactful events to proceed upon completion of the backup operation.