US 11,989,099 B1
Forecasting snapshot seasonality
Ramesh Doddaiah, Westborough, MA (US); and Owen Martin, Hopedale, MA (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/079,974.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1458 (2013.01) [G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
calculating future snapshot generation intervals and amounts of resources utilized for generation of each snapshot at ends of each of those intervals;
accumulating the calculated amounts of the resources before the end of each of the calculated intervals in pools that are pre-allocated for use for snapshot generation; and
generating a new snapshot using the pre-allocated resources in response to receipt of a command from a host server.