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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
May. 04, 2010
Fahd Pirzada, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Luning, Austin, TX (US);
Fahd Pirzada, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Luning, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for managing the storage of a client workload is disclosed. A storage management system is provided. The storage management system is operable to communicatively connect to a remote client computing device via a network. The storage management system includes a block-based storage medium, a file-based storage medium, and an object-based storage medium. A virtual image, which is associated with a remote client computing device, is stored. Elements of the virtual image are allocated across one or more of the block-based storage medium, the file-based storage medium, and the object-based storage medium, where the allocation depends on a characterization of the elements.