公开(公告)号：US20170316030A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15141988

申请日：2016-04-29

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： RITHIN KUMAR SHETTY ,  AKHIL KAUSHIK ,  NAGENDER SOMAVARAPU ,  YUEDONG MU ,  PRANAB PATNAIK

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F11/14 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G06F16/178 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F11/1464 ,  G06F11/1484 ,  G06F11/2076 ,  G06F11/2082 ,  G06F16/188 ,  G06F2009/45562 ,  G06F2009/45583 ,  G06F2201/84 ,  H04L67/1095

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for replicating virtual machine disk clones. For example, a first storage controller, hosting first storage, may have a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage controller hosting second storage. A virtual machine, within the first storage, may be specified as having synchronous replication protection. Accordingly, virtual machine disk clones of a virtual machine disk of the virtual machine may be replicated from the first storage to the second storage. For example, virtual machine disk clones may be synchronous replicated, replicated by a resync process invoked by a hypervisor agent, and/or stored and replicated from a clone backup directory.