Vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11520668-B2
Application number	US-202016824979-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2020
Priority date	Mar 20, 2020
Publication date	Dec 6, 2022
Grant date	Dec 6, 2022

Abstract

Vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources are described. A host outputs capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host. The host inputs a vendor-neutral version of a data protection operation, based on any of the capabilities, for a resource of the application. The host uses a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application to perform the vendor-neutral version of the data protection operation on the application resource.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
output, by a host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host, to a backup server; and
perform, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on a resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations for the resource of the application, from the backup server.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the processor to:
create, by the host, a plurality of vendor-neutral models corresponding to a plurality of resources of the application, in response to installing the application on the host; and
output, by the host, a result of performing the vendor-neutral version of any data protection operation on any resource of any application.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein any data protection operation comprises one of a discover database operation, a discover copy metadata operation, a backup operation, a restore operation, a schedule operation, and an install update operation, and any resource comprises one of an application server, a database, copy metadata, any application, and a file system.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein inputting any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations for any resource of any application is in response to receiving a vendor-neutral request from an application data manager to output any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations for any resource of any application, and using any vendor-neutral model of any resource of any application to perform any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations on any resource of any application is in response to receiving a vendor-neutral request from an agent of the application data manager to perform any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations on any resource of any application.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one of the data protection operations is also for another resource of another application, and the plurality of instructions further causes the processor to:
output, by the host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by another vendor of the other application that is installed on the host; and
perform, by the host, the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations on the other resource of the other application by using a vendor-neutral model of the other resource of the other application.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the processor to perform, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of another one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on another resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the other resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the other one of the data protection operations for the other resource of the application.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the other one of the data protection operations is also for another resource of another application, and the plurality of instructions further causes the processor to:
output, by the host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by the other vendor of the other application that is installed on the host; and
perform, by the host, the vendor-neutral version of the other one of the data protection operations on the other resource of the other application by using a vendor-neutral model of the other resource of the other application.

8. A computer-implemented method for vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources, the computer-implemented method comprising:
outputting, by a host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host, to a backup server; and
performing, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on a resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations for the resource of the application, from the backup server.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises:
creating, by the host, a plurality of vendor-neutral models corresponding to a plurality of resources of the application, in response to installing the application on the host; and
outputting, by the host, a result of performing the vendor-neutral version of any data protection operation on any resource of any application.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein any data protection operation comprises one of a discover database operation, a discover copy metadata operation, a backup operation, a restore operation, a schedule operation, and an install update operation, and any resource comprises one of an application server, a database, copy metadata, any application, and a file system.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein inputting any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations for any resource of any application is in response to receiving a vendor-neutral request from an application data manager to output any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations for any resource of any application, and using any vendor-neutral model of any resource of any application to perform any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations on any resource of any application is in response to receiving a vendor-neutral request from an agent of the application data manager to perform any vendor-neutral version of any one of the data protection operations on any resource of any application.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the one of the data protection operations is also for another resource of another application, and the computer-implemented method further comprises:
outputting, by the host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by another vendor of the other application that is installed on the host; and
performing, by the host, the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations on the other resource of the other application by using a vendor-neutral model of the other resource of the other application.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises performing, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of another one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on another resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the other resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the other one of the data protection operations for the other resource of the application.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 , wherein the other one of the data protection operations is also for another resource of another application, and the computer-implemented method further comprises:
outputting, by the host, capabilities

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Chopra Shelesh
• Singh Pawan
• Radha Jayashree
• Ugur-Ozekinci Yasemin
• Owens Ken

Classifications

• G06F11/1464 Primary

  for networked environments · CPC title

• G06F11/1469

  Backup restoration techniques · CPC title

• G06F11/1484

  involving virtual machines · CPC title

• G06F2201/82

  Solving problems relating to consistency · CPC title

• G06F16/27

  Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor · CPC title