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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Pawan Misra, Morrisville, NC (US);
Michael D. Haynes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chetan Rameshchandra Vaidya, Durham, NC (US);
Somnath Gulve, Morrisville, NC (US);
Pawan Misra, Morrisville, NC (US);
Michael D. Haynes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chetan Rameshchandra Vaidya, Durham, NC (US);
Somnath Gulve, Morrisville, NC (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
This invention is a system and method for managing sessions and memory resources used for replication of data in a data storage environment. In one embodiment, a methodology is provided that inspecting a plurality of copy sessions forming a copy session group operating in the data storage environment to determine the size and number of buffers each session is using, and determining whether to abort a session of the group and reallocate its buffers by redistributing its memory for use by itself and another session based on the inspection. In other embodiments, implementations include a system, a computer program product, or an apparatus, wherein each embodiment is configured for carrying out the steps involved in the methodology.