Patent ID: 11921671
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of volume snapshot deletion in a container system, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to:
receive a request to delete an individual volume snapshot of a source volume from an object store independent of a maintenance schedule for the individual volume snapshot, the object store being separate from the source volume;
identify a volume snapshot object corresponding to the individual volume snapshot from an identifier unique to the individual volume snapshot included in the volume snapshot object, the volume snapshot object being separate from the individual volume snapshot and uniquely corresponding to the individual volume snapshot;
update, by an orchestrator of the container system in response to the request to delete the individual snapshot, the volume snapshot object to indicate the volume snapshot object is ready for deletion;
send a delete request from the container system to the object store in response to detecting that the corresponding volume snapshot object has been indicated as ready for deletion, the delete request requesting deleting the individual volume snapshot from the object store;
repeat the sending until the individual volume snapshot is deleted from the object store; and
delay deleting the volume snapshot object until the corresponding individual snapshot is deleted from the object store.