Patent ID: 11922197
Assignee: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A system for virtual server agent load balancing, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to: according to a storage policy, identify a set of virtual machines for performing a data protection operation, wherein the set of virtual machines is hosted by a set of virtual machine provider systems, wherein the storage policy is a collection of settings or preferences for performing data protection operations on data associated with the storage policy; identify a set of virtual server agents available to perform a data protection operation on the data associated with the set of virtual machines; determine a number of data streams available to each virtual server agent from the set of virtual server agents; and distribute the set of virtual machines among the set of virtual server agents based at least partially on the number of data streams available to each of the virtual server agents.