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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2023
Netapp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Rajaram Balakrishnan, Fremont, CA (US);
Balamurali Palaiah, Gilroy, CA (US);
Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai, Tracy, CA (US);
Kiran Joseph D Almeida, Bengaluru, IN;
Negi Shardul Singh, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Vineeth Karinta, Apex, NC (US);
NETAPP, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for protecting virtual machines is provided. One method includes discovering, by a first plugin, from a virtual machine ('VM') management system, a plurality of VMs that share a logical data store having a plurality of virtual volumes used for storing data for the VMs by a storage system registered with the first plugin and a virtual appliance of the VM management system; obtaining, by the first plugin, from the virtual appliance, metadata and storage layout of a set of virtual volumes used by a VM to store data; using a first application programming interface (API), by the first plugin, for identifying a first set of storage volumes used by the storage system to store data for the set of virtual volumes; and creating, by the first plugin, a consistency group (“CG”) having the identified the first set of storage volumes and generating a snapshot of the CG.