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公开(公告)号:US20230124827A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-20
申请号:US17501881
申请日:2021-10-14
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Sagar Mardur DASHARATHA , Sanjay KUMAR , Amit MITKAR , Ashwin Gautamchand SANCHETI , Prasanna Kumar THOPPE RAVINDRAN , Sanjay VISHWAKARMA
Abstract: The disclosed “Live Mount In Cloud” solution enables, within a cloud computing environment that houses a desired backup copy made from a source virtual machine, immediate access to backed up data on demand without restoring the backup copy in its entirety. Live Mount In Cloud also enables the live-mounted VM to write new data, not just to read from the backup copy. Live Mount In Cloud creates multiply nested VMs within the cloud computing environment. Accordingly, the live-mounted VM runs in (is hosted by) a hypervisor nested within a cloud-native VM. Live Mount In Cloud handles any differences between formatting and configuration settings of the hypervisor hosting the live-mounted VM and the way in which the backup copy is formatted. A backup proxy VM intercepts reads and writes issued by the live-mounted VM and facilitates access to the backup copy.
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公开(公告)号:US20220083429A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-17
申请号:US17486637
申请日:2021-09-27
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Rahul S. PAWAR , Henry Wallace DORNEMANN
Abstract: According to certain aspects, a method can include, at a first time, performing an incremental backup of first data associated with a virtual machine (VM) residing on a source client computing device from the source client computing device to one or more secondary storage devices to create a backup copy of the VM, where the VM is associated with a hypervisor of a first type; receiving an instruction to restore the first data associated with the VM from the one or more secondary storage devices; retrieving the first data from the one or more secondary storage devices; and applying the first data to second data associated with a replicated VM running on the destination client computing device, where the replicated VM is a replicated version of the VM, and where the second data corresponds to data of the VM at a time before the first time.
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公开(公告)号:US20210255935A1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-19
申请号:US17191517
申请日:2021-03-03
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Rahul S. PAWAR , Jun H. AHN
IPC: G06F11/14 , G06F16/27 , G06F16/11 , G06F16/182 , G06F16/21 , G06F16/17 , G06F16/22 , G06F16/23 , G06F3/06 , G06F11/30 , G06F11/34
Abstract: A system according to certain aspects may include a client computing device including: a database application configured to output a database file in a primary storage device(s), the database application outputting the database file as a series of application-level blocks; and a data agent configured to divide the database file into a plurality of first blocks having a first granularity larger than a second granularity of the application-level blocks such that each of the first blocks spans a plurality of the application-level blocks. The system may include a secondary storage controller computer(s) configured to: in response to instructions to create a secondary copy of the database file: copy the plurality of first blocks to a secondary storage device(s) to create a secondary copy of the database file; and create a table that provides a mapping between the copied plurality of first blocks and corresponding locations on the secondary storage device(s).
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公开(公告)号:US20200301891A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-24
申请号:US16866879
申请日:2020-05-05
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Henry Wallace DORNEMANN
IPC: G06F16/182 , G06F16/25 , G06F11/20
Abstract: An information management system according to certain aspects configured to implement VM backup and replication operations that reduce the amount of resources and the cost typically associated with such operations. The system can initiate backups of VM data (e.g., persistent data or data written to a virtual disk, such as application data, data saved by an application running on the VM, etc.) and VM memory (e.g., non-persistent data) of a VM. The system can convert the VM data into another format before storage in a secondary storage device occurs. Rather than replicating the VM based on data provided by the production client device, the information management system can initiate VM replication using the backup stored in the secondary storage device. The backup data can be converted into a format associated with the hypervisor that is to run the VM on the target client device before replication to the target client device occurs.
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公开(公告)号:US20190220368A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16235158
申请日:2018-12-28
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Brahmaiah VALLABHANENI , Paramasivam KUMARASAMY , Rahul S. PAWAR , Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Jun H. AHN , Muthusamy SENTHILNATHAN
IPC: G06F11/14 , G06F16/23 , G06F3/06 , G06F16/182 , G06F16/17 , G06F16/27 , G06F16/21 , G06F16/11 , G06F16/22
CPC classification number: G06F11/1464 , G06F3/061 , G06F3/0619 , G06F3/064 , G06F3/0643 , G06F3/065 , G06F3/067 , G06F11/14 , G06F11/1448 , G06F11/1451 , G06F11/1458 , G06F11/1469 , G06F11/3034 , G06F11/3476 , G06F16/113 , G06F16/1727 , G06F16/1827 , G06F16/184 , G06F16/214 , G06F16/2282 , G06F16/2358 , G06F16/27 , G06F16/275 , G06F2201/80 , G06F2201/84
Abstract: A system according to certain aspects improves the process of restoring database objects and converting those objects into another database file format. According to certain aspects, a database file is backed up in a block-level fashion. Instead of restoring the entire backup file, which can consume a large amount of time and computing resources, the information management system may restore a particular database object from a backup database file that is stored as multiple blocks or other granular units. Then, the information management system can extract the desired data from the restored block(s). By using block-level mapping and storage techniques described herein, the system can restore a database object in a backup database file without restoring the entire backup database file, thereby speeding up restore operations and reducing consumption of storage and processing resources. In addition, the information management system can convert the blocks, using a staging memory, to another database file format as desired.
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公开(公告)号:US20190213087A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-11
申请号:US16235212
申请日:2018-12-28
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Paramasivam KUMARASAMY , Brahmaiah VALLABHANENI , Rahul S. PAWAR , Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Jun H. AHN , Amey Vijaykumar KARANDIKAR , Amit MITKAR , Muthusamy SENTHILNATHAN , Satish Chandra KILARU
IPC: G06F11/14 , G06F16/23 , G06F3/06 , G06F16/182 , G06F16/17 , G06F16/27 , G06F16/21 , G06F16/11 , G06F16/22
CPC classification number: G06F11/1464 , G06F3/061 , G06F3/0619 , G06F3/064 , G06F3/0643 , G06F3/065 , G06F3/067 , G06F11/1448 , G06F11/1451 , G06F11/1458 , G06F11/1469 , G06F16/113 , G06F16/1727 , G06F16/1827 , G06F16/184 , G06F16/214 , G06F16/2282 , G06F16/2358 , G06F16/27 , G06F16/275 , G06F2201/80 , G06F2201/84
Abstract: According to certain aspects, a system may include a data agent configured to: process a database file residing on a primary storage device(s) to identify a subset of data in the database file for archiving, the database file generated by a database application; and extract the subset of the data from the database file and store the subset of the data in an archive file on the primary storage device(s) as a plurality of blocks having a common size; and at least one secondary storage controller computer configured to, as part of a secondary copy operation in which the archive file is copied to a secondary storage device(s): copy the plurality of blocks to the secondary storage devices to create a secondary copy of the archive file; and create a table that provides a mapping between the copied plurality of blocks and corresponding locations in the secondary storage device(s).
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公开(公告)号:US20180329636A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-15
申请号:US15979215
申请日:2018-05-14
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Rahul S. PAWAR
Abstract: According to certain aspects, a system includes a client device that includes a virtual machine (VM) executed by a hypervisor, a driver located within the hypervisor, and a data agent. The VM may include a virtual hard disk file and a change block bitmap file. The driver may intercept a first write operation generated by the VM to store data in a first sector, determine an identity of the first sector based on the intercepted write operation, determine an entry in the change block bitmap file that corresponds with the first sector, and modify the entry in the change block bitmap file to indicate that data in the first sector has changed. The data agent may generate an incremental backup of the VM based on the change block bitmap file in response to an instruction from a storage manager, where the incremental backup includes the data in the first sector.
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公开(公告)号:US20180295201A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-11
申请号:US15946116
申请日:2018-04-05
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Henry Wallace DORNEMANN
CPC classification number: H04L67/28 , H04L41/042 , H04L41/0856
Abstract: A comprehensive approach to streaming backups for virtual machines (“VMs”) in a storage management system comprises improvements to the assignment of data agent proxies for VM secondary copy operations. New considerations in performing a VM streaming backup job include without limitation: determining and enforcing a system-wide per-proxy limit of concurrent data streams; generating an ordered priority list of the VMs to be backed up as a basis for choosing which proxies will back up the respective VM, though the illustrative system may not strictly adhere to the priority list based on further considerations; identifying a next available proxy based on data stream utilization at the proxy; and dynamically re-generating the priority list and re-evaluating considerations if some VMs become “stranded” due to a failure to be backed up. Secondary copy operations are distributed to proxies in ways that improve the chances of successfully completing VM streaming backups.
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公开(公告)号:US20180095846A1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-05
申请号:US15716391
申请日:2017-09-26
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Santhosh SANAKKAYALA , Sarath Cheriyan JOSEPH , Ananda VENKATESHA , Rajesh POLIMERA , Rahul S. PAWAR , Henry Wallace DORNEMANN
Abstract: An illustrative “VM heartbeat monitoring network” of heartbeat monitor nodes monitors target VMs in a data storage management system. Accordingly, target VMs are distributed and re-distributed among illustrative worker monitor nodes according to preferences in an illustrative VM distribution logic. Worker heartbeat monitor nodes use an illustrative ping monitoring logic to transmit special-purpose heartbeat packets to respective target VMs and to track ping responses. If a target VM is ultimately confirmed failed by its worker monitor node, an illustrative master monitor node triggers an enhanced storage manager to initiate failover for the failed VM. The enhanced storage manager communicates with the heartbeat monitor nodes and also manages VM failovers and other storage management operations in the system. Special features for cloud-to-cloud failover scenarios enable a VM in a first region of a public cloud to fail over to a second region.
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公开(公告)号:US20170199791A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-13
申请号:US15471952
申请日:2017-03-28
Applicant: Commvault Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Amit MITKAR , Sumer Dilip DESHPANDE , Henry Wallace DORNEMANN , Rahul S. PAWAR , Ashwin Gautamchand SANCHETI
CPC classification number: G06F11/1469 , G06F9/45558 , G06F9/461 , G06F9/485 , G06F9/5077 , G06F11/1464 , G06F2009/4557 , G06F2009/45583 , G06F2009/45595 , G06F2201/815
Abstract: The data storage system according to certain aspects can manage the archiving of virtual machines to (and restoring of virtual machines from) secondary storage. The system may archive virtual machines (VMs) that are determined to have a low level of utilization. The system may create a virtual machine placeholder for an archived VM, which may be a “light” or minimal version of the VM that acts like the actual VM. By using a VM placeholder, a VM may appear to be active and selectable by the user. When the user selects the VM, the VM placeholder can interact with the user in similar manner as the VM. Accessing the VM placeholder may trigger restore of the archived VM from secondary storage. The restore of the archived VM may be “seamless” to the user since the VM remains available while it is being restored.
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