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    发明申请
    VIRTUAL SERVER AGENT LOAD BALANCING 有权
    虚拟服务器代理负载均衡

    公开(公告)号:US20160306642A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-20

    申请号:US15196739

    申请日:2016-06-29

    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虚拟机,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。

    LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES ACROSS COMPUTING AND VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS INCLUDING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210157628A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17168011

    申请日:2021-02-04

    Abstract: An illustrative “Live Synchronization” feature in a data storage management system can reduce the downtime that arises in failover situations. The illustrative Live Sync embodiment uses backup data to create and maintain a ready (or “warm”) virtualized computing platform comprising one or more virtual machines (“VMs”) that are configured and ready to be activated and take over data processing from another data processing platform operating in the production environment. The “warm” computing platform awaits activation as a failover solution for the production system(s) and can be co-located at the production data center, or configured at a remote or disaster recovery site, which in some embodiments is configured “in the cloud.” Both local and remote illustrative embodiments are discussed herein. An “incremental forever” approach can be combined with deduplication and synthetic full backups to speed up data transfer and update the disaster recovery sites.

    Efficient live-mount of a backed up virtual machine in a storage management system

    公开(公告)号:US10048889B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US15191366

    申请日:2016-06-23

    Abstract: Systems and methods enable a virtual machine, including any applications executing thereon, to quickly start executing and servicing users based on pre-staged data blocks supplied from a backup copy in secondary storage. An enhanced media agent may pre-stage certain backed up data blocks which may be needed to launch the virtual machine, based on predictive analysis pertaining to the virtual machine's operational profile. The enhanced media agent may also pre-stage backed up data blocks for a virtual-machine-file-relocation operation, based on the operation's relocation scheme. Servicing read requests to the virtual machine may take priority over ongoing pre-staging of backed up data. Read requests may be tracked so that the media agent may properly maintain the contents of an associated read cache. Some embodiments of the illustrative storage management system may lack, or may simply not require, the relocation operation, and may operate in a “live mount” configuration.

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