Virtual server agent load balancing

    公开(公告)号:US10474483B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US15960401

    申请日:2018-04-23

    Abstract: Virtual machine (VM) proliferation may be reduced through the use of Virtual Server Agents (VSAs) assigned to a group of VM hosts that may determine the availability of a VM to perform a task. Tasks may be assigned to existing VMs instead of creating a new VM to perform the task. Furthermore, a VSA coordinator may determine a grouping of VMs or VM hosts based on one or more factors associated with the VMs or the VM hosts, such as VM type or geographical location of the VM hosts. The VSA coordinator may also assign one or more VSAs to facilitate managing the group of VM hosts. In some embodiments, the VSA coordinators may facilitate load balancing of VSAs during operation, such as during a backup operation, a restore operation, or any other operation between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system.

    Browse and restore for block-level backups

    公开(公告)号:US09766825B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-19

    申请号:US14805615

    申请日:2015-07-22

    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing file-level restore operations for block-level data volumes are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods restore data from a block-level data volume contained in secondary storage by receiving a request to restore one or more files from the block-level data volume, mounting a virtual GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk to the block-level data volume, accessing one or more mount paths established by the virtual GPT disk between the data agent and the block-level data volume, and browsing data from one or more files within the block-level data volume via the established one or more mount paths provided by the virtual GPT disk.

    VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM
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    发明申请
    VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM 审中-公开
    数据存储系统中的虚拟机管理

    公开(公告)号:US20140196038A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-10

    申请号:US14148465

    申请日:2014-01-06

    CPC classification number: G06F9/45533 G06F9/505 G06F9/5083 G06F2209/5022

    Abstract: Virtual machine (VM) proliferation may be reduced through the use of Virtual Server Agents (VSAs) assigned to a group of VM hosts that may determine the availability of a VM to perform a task. Tasks may be assigned to existing VMs instead of creating a new VM to perform the task. Furthermore, a VSA coordinator may determine a grouping of VMs or VM hosts based on one or more factors associated with the VMs or the VM hosts, such as VM type or geographical location of the VM hosts. The VSA coordinator may also assign one or more VSAs to facilitate managing the group of VM hosts. In some embodiments, the VSA coordinators may facilitate load balancing of VSAs during operation, such as during a backup operation, a restore operation, or any other operation between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system.

    Abstract translation: 可以通过使用分配给一组VM主机的虚拟服务器代理(VSA)来减少虚拟机(VM)的扩散,这些VM主机可能决定执行任务的可用性。 可以将任务分配给现有VM,而不是创建新的VM来执行任务。 此外,VSA协调器可以基于与VM或VM主机相关联的一个或多个因素(例如VM主机的VM类型或地理位置)来确定VM或VM主机的分组。 VSA协调器还可以分配一个或多个VSA以便于管理VM主机组。 在一些实施例中,VSA协调器可以在操作期间(诸如在备份操作,恢复操作或主存储系统和辅助存储系统之间的任何其他操作)中促进VSA的负载平衡。

    Virtual server agent load balancing

    公开(公告)号:US12299467B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-13

    申请号:US18584281

    申请日:2024-02-22

    Abstract: Virtual machine (VM) proliferation may be reduced through the use of Virtual Server Agents (VSAs) assigned to a group of VM hosts that may determine the availability of a VM to perform a task. Tasks may be assigned to existing VMs instead of creating a new VM to perform the task. Furthermore, a VSA coordinator may determine a grouping of VMs or VM hosts based on one or more factors associated with the VMs or the VM hosts, such as VM type or geographical location of the VM hosts. The VSA coordinator may also assign one or more VSAs to facilitate managing the group of VM hosts. In some embodiments, the VSA coordinators may facilitate load balancing of VSAs during operation, such as during a backup operation, a restore operation, or any other operation between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system.

    Protecting a management database of a data storage management system to meet a recovery point objective (RPO)

    公开(公告)号:US12045145B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US18451940

    申请日:2023-08-18

    CPC classification number: G06F11/1469 G06F11/1474 G06F2201/87

    Abstract: An illustrative data storage management system comprises a management database that stores administrative preferences and system configurations, as well as results and/or statistics of completed secondary storage operations, i.e., information needed by the system to protect customers' data and to track and recover the protected data, including secondary copies such as backup copies, archive copies, etc. The disclosed data storage management system is configured to protect its own system data subject to a very aggressive (short) Recovery Point Objective (RPO), by using an innovative infrastructure that enables the system's storage manager to fail over to any number of other failover destination storage managers, each one comprising a destination management database. An illustrative database granularly tracks whether each and every transaction log file has been successfully applied to each and every destination management database to synchronize with the source management database.

    SKIPPING DATA BACKED UP IN PRIOR BACKUP OPERATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20230259297A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-17

    申请号:US18138668

    申请日:2023-04-24

    CPC classification number: G06F3/065 G06F3/0608 G06F3/067 G06F3/0644 G06F3/0641

    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein relate to an improved selective data backup system. In some embodiments, one or more components in an information management system can determine that a portion of the primary data scheduled for backup was previously backed up or is scheduled to be backed up as part of another backup operation. For example, a data agent performing a cluster-level backup operation for an entire cluster of storage servers may check whether any part of the primary data was previously backed up by a prior server-level backup operation for one of the storage servers in the cluster. If so, the data agent may skip, in the cluster-level backup operation, any portion of the primary data stored in the storage server previously backed up as part of the prior server-level backup operation.

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