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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2013
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Eric Christian Matthies, Millis, MA (US);
Christopher Francis Wroten, Franklin, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for generating a snapshot map used to facilitate storage system management. In some embodiments, this includes displaying a snapshot map comprising a set of components, each of the component representing a snapshot configuration characteristic, selecting a component from the set of components, obtaining the snapshot configuration characteristic represented by the selected component, dragging the selected component from the snapshot map, dropping the selected component to a configuration display, generating configurations based on the snapshot configuration characteristic, summarizing in the configuration display the configurations, and confirming the configurations.