DYNAMIC PROTECTION OF STORAGE RESOURCES FOR DISASTER RECOVERY

摘要

A recovery manager discovers replication properties of datastores stored in a storage array, and assigns custom tags to the datastores indicating the discovered replication properties. A user may create storage profiles with rules using any combination of these custom tags describe replication properties. The recovery manager protects a storage profile using a policy-based protection mechanism. Whenever a new replicated datastore is provisioned, the datastore is dynamically tagged with the replication properties of their underlying storage, and will belong to one or more storage profiles. The recovery manager monitors storage profiles for new datastores and protects the newly provisioned datastore dynamically, including any or all of the VMs stored in the datastore.

主权项

1. A method for protecting storage resources for disaster recovery, the method comprising:
retrieving replication properties associated with a first logical storage device from a first storage system, wherein the first storage system configured to perform array-based replication with a corresponding second storage system; assigning the retrieved replication properties to a datastore stored in the first logical storage device, wherein the datastore comprises a logical container configured to store virtual machine files; associating the datastore with a storage profile based on a determination that the replication properties match a rule set of the storage profile; and adding the datastore associated with the storage profile to a protection group configured to provide disaster recovery protection of the datastore from a protected site to a recovery site.