Patents by Inventor Atul Bhalodia

Atul Bhalodia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Disaster recovery for virtual machines across primary and secondary sites
    Patent number: 9020895
    Abstract: A processing system stores a backup of virtual machine data on a storage device in a primary network storage system. A virtual machine running on a primary host machine, which is coupled to the primary network storage system, generates the virtual machine data. A replication software module replicates the backup of the virtual machine data from the primary network storage system to a secondary network storage system. In the event of a failure on the first network storage system, disaster recovery services module restores the virtual machine data from the secondary network storage system to cause the virtual machine to run on a secondary host machine coupled to the secondary network storage system, wherein the disaster recovery services module is coupled to the primary host machine and the secondary host machine over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Rajashekar, Atul Bhalodia, Anagha Barve, Vineeth Karinta
  • Centralized storage management for multiple heterogeneous host-side servers
    Patent number: 8244850
    Abstract: Centralized management of both host-side storage objects on multiple heterogeneous host-side servers and logical data containers on a storage system is performed by a management server. In one embodiment, the management server automatically provisions a logical data container on the storage server according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server automatically performs a snapshot operation on logical data containers on the storage system according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server centrally monitors for out-of-space events in the storage system and automatically correlates the out-of-space events in the storage system to out-of-space events for the host-side file systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Roussos, Kumaravel Thillai, Anupama Kirpekar, Atul Bhalodia, Vani Bappanadu
  • Centralized storage management for multiple heterogeneous host-side servers
    Patent number: 8024442
    Abstract: Centralized management of both host-side storage objects on multiple heterogeneous host-side servers and logical data containers on a storage system is performed by a management server. In one embodiment, the management server automatically provisions a logical data container on the storage server according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server automatically performs a snapshot operation on logical data containers on the storage system according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server centrally monitors for out-of-space events in the storage system and automatically correlates the out-of-space events in the storage system to out-of-space events for the host-side file systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Roussos, Kumaravel Thillai, Anupama Kirpekar, Atul Bhalodia, Vani Bappanadu