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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2008
James H. Holl, Ii, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Peter Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Sahn Lam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anawat Chanhunthod, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hemanth Pannem, Satyavedu, IN;
James H. Holl, II, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Peter Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Sahn Lam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anawat Chanhunthod, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hemanth Pannem, Satyavedu, IN;
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus to increase conformance of a storage implementation of a data set to a storage policy are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes performing a conformance check of a data set state and an associated data management policy. The method includes identifying a set of tasks that can be performed to increase conformance of the data set state to the associated policy, and generating a task list using tasks from the set of tasks. The method further includes outputting an indication of the task list to a user and accepting from the user an approval of the task list before generating and executing a second task list.