Patent ID: 11934859
Assignee: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a first computing device that comprises one or more hardware processors, wherein the first computing device is configured to:
receive location information about a virtual machine, from a host computing device that comprises one or more hardware processors, wherein the virtual machine executes at the host computing device;
based at least in part on the location information received from the host computing device, identify storage that comprises virtual machine data of the virtual machine,
wherein the storage is configured at a primary storage device that comprises one or more of:
at least one data storage device, and
at least one logical unit number (LUN); and
request the primary storage device to perform a secondary copy operation on each of the one or more of: the at least one data storage device, and the at least one logical unit number (LUN), wherein the secondary copy operation generates one or more secondary copies that are based on the virtual machine data of the virtual machine.