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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2014
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Giridharan Sugabrahmam, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ilia Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Aleksey Pershin, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/203 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

To prevent a user from initiating potentially dangerous virtual machine migrations, a storage migration engine is configured to be aware of replication properties for a source datastore and a destination datastore. The replication properties are obtained from a storage array configured to provide array-based replication. A recovery manager discovers the replication properties of the datastores stored in the storage array, and assigns custom tags to the datastores indicating the discovered replication properties. When storage migration of a virtual machine is requested, the storage migration engine performs or prevents the storage migration based on the assigned custom tags.


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