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.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SELECT FILES FOR RESTORATION FROM BLOCK-LEVEL BACKUP FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES
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    发明申请
    SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SELECT FILES FOR RESTORATION FROM BLOCK-LEVEL BACKUP FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES 审中-公开
    系统和方法从虚拟机的块级备份中选择文件进行恢复

    公开(公告)号:US20140201151A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-17

    申请号:US14098914

    申请日:2013-12-06

    Abstract: A data storage system receives a user instruction through a user interface to restore a specific virtual machine file from a block-level backup. The system accesses a file index which is created during the block-level backup by accessing the file allocation table of the underlying host system and associating the blocks with the file location information of the virtual machine files stored in the file allocation table. The system further creates a file level table based at least in part on the virtual machine file information stored in the file index, displays a listing of the virtual machine files from the file level table, and receives a user selected virtual machine file to restore.

    Abstract translation: 数据存储系统通过用户界面接收用户指令,以从块级备份恢复特定的虚拟机文件。 系统通过访问底层主机系统的文件分配表并将块与存储在文件分配表中的虚拟机文件的文件位置信息相关联来访问在块级备份期间创建的文件索引。 该系统至少部分地基于存储在文件索引中的虚拟机文件信息来创建文件级表,从文件级表显示虚拟机文件的列表,并接收用户选择的虚拟机文件进行恢复。

    Efficiently restoring execution of a backed up virtual machine based on coordination with virtual-machine-file-relocation operations

    公开(公告)号:US10437505B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15895226

    申请日:2018-02-13

    Abstract: Systems and methods enable a virtual machine, including applications executing thereon, to quickly start executing and servicing users based on pre-staged data blocks supplied from a backup copy in secondary storage. Substantially concurrently with the ongoing execution of the virtual machine, a virtual-machine-file-relocation operation moves data blocks from backup to a primary storage destination that becomes the virtual machine's primary data store after relocation completes. An enhanced data agent, operating in conjunction with an enhanced media agent in a storage management system, coordinates restoring the virtual machine and launching the relocation operation. The enhanced media agent pre-stages certain backed up data blocks based on predictive analysis pertaining to the virtual machine's operational profile. The enhanced media agent also pre-stages backed up data blocks for the relocation operation, based on the operation's relocation scheme. The media agent tracks read requests and maintains the contents of an associated read cache.

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