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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2014
Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, IL;
Josef Ezra, Even Yehuda, IL;
Ido Ben Tsion, Ness-Ziona, IL;
Yechiel Yochai, Moshav Aviel, IL;
Efraim Zeidner, Haifa, IL;
INFINIDAT LTD., Herzliya, IL;
Abstract
A method for managing physical resources of a storage system, the method may include transmitting, to a remote site, first information representative of a first snapshot of a logical entity; wherein the first snapshot is associated with first data that is stored in first physical addresses of the storage system; wherein the first physical addresses are mapped to first logical addresses; receiving from the remote site a first acknowledgment indicating that the first information was fully received by the remote site; and disassociating, in response to a reception of the first acknowledgement, the first snapshot from the first physical addresses while maintaining a logical association between the first snapshot and the first logical addresses.