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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 02, 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 7/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01);
Abstract

A recovery manager discovers replication properties of datastores stored in a storage array, and assigns custom tags to the datastores indicating the discovered replication properties. A user may create storage profiles with rules using any combination of these custom tags describe replication properties. The recovery manager protects a storage profile using a policy-based protection mechanism. Whenever a new replicated datastore is provisioned, the datastore is dynamically tagged with the replication properties of their underlying storage, and will belong to one or more storage profiles. The recovery manager monitors storage profiles for new datastores and protects the newly provisioned datastore dynamically, including any or all of the VMs stored in the datastore.


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