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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
William J Elliott, IV, Holden, MA (US);
Anoop G. Ninan, Milford, MA (US);
Evgeny Roytman, Sharon, MA (US);
Thomas L. Watson, Richardson, TX (US);
Ameer Jabbar, Lilburn, GA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for storage provisioning in a data storage environment comprising protecting, through an orchestration API, a source volume at a source site by setting the source volume to be replicated to a target volume at a target site through the use of a replication appliance; wherein the API is enabled to create network zones between the source site and the target site for replication from the source site to the target site and wherein the network zone is configured to include the replication appliance; wherein the API is enabled to mask storage devices used to store data on the source volume and the target volume.