Live synchronization and management of virtual machines across computing and virtualization platforms and using live synchronization to support disaster recovery

HW Dornemann, AV Nagrale, RS Pawar… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) 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 …

Application-level live synchronization across computing platforms including synchronizing co-resident applications to disparate standby destinations and selectively …

P Kumarasamy, B Vallabhaneni, A Mitkar - US Patent 10,387,266, 2019 - Google Patents
Abstract An illustrative “Live Synchronization” feature creates and maintains a ready standby
“synchronized application” that is available to take over as a failover solution for a “primary” …

Virtual machine change block tracking

HW Dornemann, RS Pawar - US Patent 9,983,936, 2018 - Google Patents
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 …

Targeted snapshot based on virtual machine location

AG Sancheti, HW Dornemann - US Patent 10,162,528, 2018 - Google Patents
A data storage environment can include one or more virtual machines instantiated on a host
computing device. Based on physical location data of the one or more virtual machines …

Selective snapshot and backup copy operations for individual virtual machines in a shared storage

AG Sancheti - US Patent 10,210,048, 2019 - Google Patents
System and techniques for performing selective snapshot and backup copy operations for
individual virtual machines in a shared storage. The system can include a hypervisor …

Hypervisor-independent block-level live browse for access to backed up virtual machine (VM) data and hypervisor-free file-level recovery (block-level pseudo-mount)

HW Dornemann, RS Pawar, A Mitkar, SK Gutta… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Hypervisor-independent block-level live browse is used for directly accessing backed up
virtual machine (VM) data. Hypervisor-free file-level recovery (block-level pseudo-mount) …

Point-in-time backups of a production application made accessible over fibre channel and/or iSCSI as data sources to a remote application by representing the …

A Mitkar, P Kumarasamy - US Patent 10,360,110, 2019 - Google Patents
The present enhancement leaves production systems undisturbed while a remote
application (“testbed application”) executes elsewhere (“testbed host”). An intermediary …

Virtual server cloud file system for virtual machine restore to cloud operations

HW Dornemann - US Patent 10,592,350, 2020 - Google Patents
Uploads of restored virtual machine (“VM”) data to cloud storage, eg, VM restore-to-cloud
operations, are performed without having to write whole restored virtual disk files to a proxy …

Heartbeat monitoring of virtual machines for initiating failover operations in a data storage management system, using ping monitoring of target virtual machines

S Sanakkayala, SC Joseph, A Venkatesha… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
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 …

External dynamic virtual machine synchronization

SK Bhagi, S Gutta, HW Dornemann… - US Patent 10,387,073, 2019 - Google Patents
Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and processes for replicating one or more
user computing systems of an information management system at an external resource …