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Federated restore of cluster shared volumes

  • US 9,398,092 B1
  • Filed: 09/25/2012
  • Issued: 07/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for restoring workloads in a clustered server environment, comprising:

  • receiving, by a server computer having one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable medium computer readable program instructions embodied therein, a request to restore a workload from a backup data object, the backup data object being a backup of the workload stored on a cluster shared volume, to the clustered server environment, the cluster server environment comprising a plurality of nodes, each node being capable of hosting the workload;

    determining, by the server computer, if the requested workload is active in the clustered server environment, and, if the requested workload is active, identifying a node location of the requested workload;

    determining, by the server computer, a restore node from the plurality of nodes in the cluster server environment, wherein the restore node comprises a server;

    if the requested workload is active in the clustered server environment and the node location is different from the restore node, deactivating the requested workload at the node location;

    designating, by the server computer, the restore node as a coordinating node, wherein the coordinating node manages all of the input/output operations by the plurality of nodes to the cluster shared volume; and

    restoring, by the server computer, the requested workload from the backup data object to the restore node, and writing workload data files for the requested workload to the cluster shared volume in the cluster server environment.

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