Methods and apparatus for managing a large-scale environment of copy data management appliances

US10379963B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Actifio, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ankur Bhargava · Oxford, US
• Micah Waldman · Newton, US
• James Washburn · Buford, US
• Jacqueline M. Smith · Cambridge, US
• Jeffrey S. McNeil · Nampa, US
• Dongjun Sun · Marlborough, US
• Yong Chen · Waltham, US
• Qiang Fu · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2019
• Expiry date: May 25, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2201/84
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques disclosed herein provide for global management of a set of data management services being executed by at least one of one or more physical data management appliances and one or more virtual data management appliances. First instructions are transmitted to a first copy data management appliance that cause the first copy data management appliance to send first data associated with protecting a first application entity to the management server. Second instructions are transmitted to a second copy data management appliance that cause the second copy data management appliance to send second data associated with protecting a second application entity to the management server. A plurality of data management policies associated with the first copy data management appliance and the second copy data management appliance are scheduled using a third service level template, which includes a merged set of schedules for the first and second copy data management appliances.