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VIRTUAL SERVER AGENT LOAD BALANCING

  • US 20140196056A1
  • Filed: 01/06/2014
  • Published: 07/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of virtual server agent load balancing, the method comprising:

  • by a virtual server agent coordinator comprising computer hardware;

    identifying a set of virtual machines for backup to a secondary storage system, the set of virtual machines hosted by a set of virtual machine provider systems, the set of virtual machine provider systems included in a primary storage system;

    identifying a set of virtual server agents available to backup data from the set of virtual machines to the secondary storage system;

    determining a number of data streams available to each virtual server agent from the set of virtual server agents; and

    distributing the set of virtual machines among the set of virtual server agents based at least partially on the number of data streams available to each of the virtual server agents.

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