Patent ID: 9152338
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for snapshot management in a storage infrastructure, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to identify one or more snapshots within layers of the storage infrastructure; program instructions to determine one or more relationships of the one or more identified snapshots of the storage infrastructure, wherein the relationships at least in part include relations of one or more entities included in the one or more snapshots to additional one or more entities in the one or more snapshots of the storage infrastructure; program instructions to identify one or more parent entities for a snapshot entity utilizing the one or more determined relationships of the one or more identified snapshots; program instructions to determine that for one or more of the parent entities a snapshot does not exist; and program instructions to remove the snapshot entity with the identified one or more parent entities that are determined to not have an existing snapshot.