Patent ID: 11921586
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A production host for hosting virtual machines, comprising:
a processor;
a persistent storage storing:
a first set of backup groupings, and
a backup process stack; and

a production agent programmed to:
obtain backup generation requests for the virtual machines; and
in response to obtaining the backup generation requests: generate the first set of backup groupings based on the backup generation requests, wherein each of the first set of backup groupings comprises at least one of the virtual machines;
issue a disable migration command to a plurality of production hosts, wherein each of the plurality of production hosts is associated with at least one of the virtual machines;
identify, after the issuing, a virtual machine, in a production host of the plurality of production hosts, of the virtual machines that is migrating;
remove, based on the identifying, the virtual machine from the first set of backup groupings to obtain a second set of backup groupings, wherein the virtual machine is placed in an excluded group after the removing; and
backup the second set of backup groupings.