System and method for intelligent data movements between non-deduplicated and deduplicated tiers in a primary storage array

    公开(公告)号:US10678431B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15280763

    申请日:2016-09-29

    Abstract: Embodiments provide for a primary storage array having multiple storage tiers. The multiple storage tiers include one or more performance tiers and at least one deduplicated storage tier storing deduplicated data. One embodiment provides for a data storage system including a first storage tier including a first set of storage devices; a second storage tier including a second set of storage devices, the second storage tier including deduplicated data; and a quality of service (QoS) manager to manage data migration between the first storage tier and the second storage tier, the QoS manager to maintain deduplication statistics for the deduplicated data, wherein the QoS manager, based on the deduplication statistics, is to partially migrate a data extent between the first storage tier and the second storage tier, the data extent including data stored at a range of storage addresses.

    Automatic update of network assets using gold images

    公开(公告)号:US11748211B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US17174881

    申请日:2021-02-12

    Abstract: Automatically updating operating system and application programs in a large-scale network using Gold image data. An asset update process receives validation by a user for use of an updated program comprising new Gold image data. The process automatically updates the previous version of the updated version with the updated program to generate new user content data, without requiring further user intervention by using a defined tag linking the new Gold image data with previous Gold image data for the older version of the program. The Gold image data is stored in a central data protection target storage separate from data protection target storage for the user content data.

    System and method of dynamic system resource allocation for primary storage systems with virtualized embedded data protection

    公开(公告)号:US11513902B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-29

    申请号:US15280723

    申请日:2016-09-29

    Abstract: Embodiments provide for a primary storage array having multiple storage tiers. The multiple storage tiers include one or more performance tiers and at least one deduplicated storage tier storing deduplicated data. One embodiment provides for a data storage system including the storage array and an I/O engine to manage I/O requests for the storage array. The data storage system additionally includes a virtual execution environment to execute a virtual backup engine, the virtual backup engine to generate backup data for the one or more storage tiers of primary storage and deduplicate the backup data and a resource manager to manage a resource allocation to the virtual backup engine based on a hint received from the virtual backup engine, the hint associated with a backup operation that has a characterization selected from a set including computationally intensive and I/O intensive.

    AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF GOLD IMAGE LIBRARY FILES AND DIRECTORIES

    公开(公告)号:US20220197940A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17174840

    申请日:2021-02-12

    Abstract: Reducing backup data by providing a data protection target for storing content data from clients running operating system and applications, and a common data protection target (CDPT) separate from the data protection target for storing Gold image data for the operating system and applications. Gold image data is stored by a user in a defined location or tagged with a defined tag. The stored or tagged Gold image data is identified by the backup software and copied to the CDPT. The identified Gold image data is cataloged. During backup, the CDPT is queried to determine if the Gold image exists, and if so, the DP target does not store the Gold image data in the DP target, but uses the reference to indicate the location of the Gold image data corresponding to the backed up content data. During a restore, the restore stream is built from the DP target and CDPT to combine user content data and Gold image data.

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