Patent ID: 11954077
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A system comprising:
a cloud storage environment; and
a local production host which comprises of:
a processor; and
a memory comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, performs a method for automatically tiering files stored on the cloud storage environment, the method comprising:
receiving, by a local production host from the cloud storage environment, cloud file system meta-data for a plurality of files stored in the cloud storage environment;
storing, at the local production host, the cloud file system meta-data as local cloud meta-data;
obtaining, by the local production host from the cloud storage environment, rules based on local data or provided by a user for assigning the plurality of files stored in the cloud storage environment to a plurality of tiers in the cloud storage environment;
analyzing, by the local production host, the local cloud meta-data for the plurality of files stored in the cloud storage environment;
assigning, based on the analyzing and the rules for assigning, each of the plurality of files to one of the plurality of tiers of the cloud storage environment to obtain tier assignments;
recording the tier assignments to the local cloud meta-data to obtain updated local cloud meta-data; and
providing the updated local cloud meta-data to the cloud storage environment, wherein the providing is configured to trigger in the cloud storage environment:
updating the cloud file system meta-data to include the tier assignments; and
reallocating the plurality of files stored in the cloud storage environment based on the tier assignments.