Volume snapshot in a shared environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9529679-B2
Application number	US-201314078875-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2013
Priority date	Nov 13, 2013
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A system may receive information associated with a write operation to be performed on a data volume. The data volume may be maintained by one or more cloud resources within a cloud computing environment. The system may determine that a snapshot of the data volume is to be created based on receiving the information associated with the write operation. The system may generate a snapshot command based on determining that the snapshot is to be created. The system may create snapshots at the one or more cloud resources based on the snapshot command. The snapshot command may be issued at each of the one or more cloud resources to cause the snapshots to be consistent across the one or more cloud resources. The system may store the snapshots.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
one or more devices to:
receive information associated with a write operation to be performed on a data volume,
the data volume being maintained by a plurality of cloud resources within a cloud computing environment;

determine that a snapshot of the data volume is to be created based on receiving the information associated with the write operation;
enter into a read-only mode;
generate a snapshot command based on determining t…

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Bloom Jeffrey M
• Iannicelli Alex
• Chitrapu Kishore

Classifications

• G06F11/1464 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2201/84

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/1448

  Physics · mapped topic