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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2007
Jean-pierre Bono, Westboro, MA (US);
John M. Hayden, Holliston, MA (US);
Sairam Veeraswamy, Westborough, MA (US);
Sachin Mullick, Natick, MA (US);
Jean-Pierre Bono, Westboro, MA (US);
John M. Hayden, Holliston, MA (US);
Sairam Veeraswamy, Westborough, MA (US);
Sachin Mullick, Natick, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
When a client requests creation of a production file system or logical unit number (LUN) of storage, a sparse metavolume and a container file system built on the sparse metavolume are implicitly created for containing the production file system or LUN. By implicitly creating one container file system for each production file system or LUN, it is possible to hide the management of the container file system from the client or end user. The creation of snapshot copies in the container file system can also be hidden from the client or end user. Customer service level expectations and thin provisioning can be met automatically by storage policies implemented upon the container file system and the underlying sparse metavolume.