Inventor

FORRESTER WALTER C

US36 patents

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FORRESTER WALTER C

EMC CORP

Managing host data placed in a container file system on a data storage array having multiple storage tiers

Providing multi-tenancy within a data storage apparatus

Deduplicating container files

Virtual storage processor failover

Providing virtual storage processor (VSP) mobility with induced file system format migration

Virtual storage processor load balancing

Unified data protection for block and file objects

Performing a non-disruptive software upgrade on physical storage processors having access to virtual storage processors

Unified data services for block and file objects

Preserving file handles when moving file system operation between storage processors

Unified datapath processing with virtualized storage processors

Managing data storage reservations on a per-family basis

Automatically creating multiple replication sessions in response to a single replication command entered by a user

Storage management

Leveraging array operations at virtualized storage processor level

Providing mobility to virtual storage processors

File system over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

Compressing container files

Upper deck file system shrink for directly and thinly provisioned lower deck file system in which upper deck file system is stored in a volume file within lower deck file system where both upper deck file system and lower deck file system resides in storage processor memory

Coordination of file system creation to ensure more deterministic performance characteristics

File system over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

File system snapshots over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

File system snapshots over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

Managing multiple file system expansions

Transaction logging using file-system-specific log files

Auxiliary files in a container file system

EMC IP HOLDING CO LLC

Managing migration of virtual file servers

Managing storage capacity in version families having both writable and read-only data objects

Converting files between thinly and thickly provisioned states

Tracking version families in a file system

Techniques for rebalancing storage between subspaces

Managing data inconsistencies in files of file systems

Enforcing minimum space guarantees in thinly-provisioned file systems

Techniques for limiting the maximum storage consumed by a file system without shrinking an underlying volume

KANTETI KUMAR

Automatically committing files to be write-once-read-many in a file system

FORRESTER WALTER C

Just-in time formatting of file system metadata