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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
System and method for distributed discovery and management of frozen images in a storage environment
Steven Umbehocker, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Tim Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
Shailesh Chaudhari, Pune, IN;
Kirk W. Clowser, Dellwood, MN (US);
Terence W. Noonan, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Shishir Asgaonkar, Pune, IN;
Gary Philips, Sanford, FL (US);
Thomas W. Lanzatella, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Elliot J. Murphy, Cocoa, FL (US);
Steven Umbehocker, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Tim Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
Shailesh Chaudhari, Pune, IN;
Kirk W. Clowser, Dellwood, MN (US);
Terence W. Noonan, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Shishir Asgaonkar, Pune, IN;
Gary Philips, Sanford, FL (US);
Thomas W. Lanzatella, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Elliot J. Murphy, Cocoa, FL (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for distributed discovery and management of frozen images includes a first and a second computer host, a first and a second frozen image agent and a frozen image server. Each of the first and second frozen image agents may be configured to identify one or more storage hierarchies hosted at a respective computer host, and to provide an encoding representing the identified storage hierarchies to the frozen image server. The frozen image server may be configured to aggregate the encodings provided by the frozen image agents into a system-level storage hierarchy catalog.