System, method and computer program product for managing a remote storage

摘要

A method, system and a computer program product that includes a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for: receiving, by a target entity, a plurality of information blocks and metadata that is associated with the plurality of information blocks, wherein the metadata comprises non-block layer metadata that differs from block layer metadata; and performing at least one memory storage operation on the information blocks before at least some of the information blocks are sent to a remote storage device over a wide area network (WAN).

主权项

1. A method for managing remote storage, the method comprising:
receiving, by a target entity and from an initiator entity, a plurality of information blocks and metadata that is associated with the plurality of information blocks, wherein the metadata comprises non-block layer metadata that differs from block layer metadata;
wherein non-block layer metadata that is associated with an information block of the plurality of information blocks comprises at least one of:application metadata about an application that provided the information block;state metadata about a state of a system that provided the information block; anduser metadata about a user of an application that provided the information block or about an owner of a file that comprises the information block; performing, based on the metadata, at least one memory storage operation on the information blocks before at least some of the information blocks are sent to a remote storage device over a wide area network (WAN); and preventing by the initiator entity an execution of a full format operation on virtual volumes of the initiator entity while allowing an execution of quick format operations on the virtual volumes of the initiator entity; wherein a full format operation of a virtual volume comprises scanning for bad disk sectors by reading and writing on each sector on the virtual volume.