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Method and system for garbage collection of data protection virtual machines in cloud computing networks

US10983908B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

EMC IP Holding Company LLC · US

Inventors

Colin Yong Zou · Beijing, CN
Assaf Natanzon · Nes Ziona, IL
Man Lv · Beijing, CN
Oliver Yang · Shanghai, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 13, 2017
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 1, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/0884
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Configuring virtual machines for garbage collection in a deduplication backup system executed on a server computer in a cloud computing network, by configuring at least one virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of virtual machines in a VM cluster to be data protection virtual machines (DP VMs), by enabling only read and write operations to/from the DP VMs, interconnecting a garbage collection VM (GC VM) of the VM cluster to the DP VMs, configuring the GC VM to perform only garbage collection tasks for the DP VMs, and providing data access credentials from each DP VM to the GC VM to facilitate the garbage collection tasks.

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