US 12,248,686 B2
Intent-driven storage tiers that protect and relocate assets
Anand Rudrabhatla, Pleasanton, CA (US); George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US); and Jehuda Shemer, Kfar Saba (IL)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on May 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/318,043.
Prior Publication US 2024/0385756 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0619 (2013.01) [G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for intent-driven storage tiers that protect and relocate assets, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
create a mapping of a storage intent defined for a digital asset to one of a plurality of primary storage tiers of a primary protection storage system in response to receiving a user definition of the storage intent for the digital asset, the mapped primary storage tier matching the storage intent;
store, in response to receiving a request to store a copy of the digital asset, a copy of the digital asset with the storage intent in the mapped primary storage tier based on the mapping of the storage intent to the primary storage tier;
identify an expanded group of storage tiers comprising the primary storage tiers combined with an additional storage tier;
change the mapping of the storage intent to the primary storage tier into a mapping of the storage intent, defined, for the digital asset, to the additional storage tier, in response to a determination that the additional storage tier matches the storage intent more than the primary storage tier matches the storage intent, which is mapped to the primary storage tier; and
relocate each copy of the digital asset, which was stored in the primary storage tier, based on the mapping of the storage intent to the primary storage tier, to the additional storage tier, based on the mapping of the storage intent to the additional storage tier.