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

Claim 13:
14. A computer-implemented method comprising:
at a first computing device that comprises one or more hardware processors, receiving location information about a virtual machine, from a host computing device that comprises one or more hardware processors and executes the virtual machine;
by the first computing device, based at least in part on the location information received from the host computing device, identifying storage that comprises virtual machine data of the virtual machine,
wherein the storage is configured at a primary storage device associated with the host computing device, and
wherein the storage comprises one or more of: at least one data storage device, and at least one logical unit number (LUN); and
by the first computing device, requesting 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.