METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HYPERVISOR LEVEL DATA SERVICES FOR SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
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Abstract
A system for cloud-based data services for multiple enterprises, including a plurality of cloud hypervisors that cooperatively provide cloud-based services to multiple enterprises, each hypervisor including a plurality of cloud virtual servers, each cloud virtual server being associated with an enterprise, at least one cloud virtual disk that is read from and written to by the at least one virtual server, each cloud virtual disk being associated with an enterprise, and a virtual data services appliance, which provides cloud-based data services, and multiple data services managers, one data services manager per respective enterprise, each of which coordinates the respective virtual data services appliances for those cloud hypervisors that service its corresponding enterprise.
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40 Claims
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21. A system for cloud-based data services for enterprise management, comprising:
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a first cloud hypervisor comprising a first virtual data services appliance; a second cloud hypervisor comprising a second virtual data services appliance; a first data services manager associated with the first cloud hypervisor that tracks a first status of the first virtual data services appliance; a second data services manager associated with the second cloud hypervisor that tracks a second status of the second virtual data services appliance; and the first data services data manager communicates with the second data services manager to indicate the first status of the first virtual data services appliance. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method of managing cloud-based data services for an enterprise, comprising:
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tracking, by a first data services manager associated with a first cloud hypervisor comprising a first virtual data services appliance, a first status of the first virtual data services appliance; tracking, by a second data services manager associated with a second cloud hypervisor comprising a second virtual data services appliance, a second status of the second virtual data services appliance; and communicating, by the first data services manager, with the second data services manager, to indicate the first status of the first virtual data services appliance. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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