US 12,079,143 B2
Dynamically managing protection groups
Steven P. Hodgson, Cobham (GB); John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US); Alan S. Driscoll, Fremont, CA (US); Nitin Nagpal, Redwood City, CA (US); Emanuel G. Noik, Palo Alto, CA (US); and John Roper, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,531.
Application 17/570,531 is a continuation of application No. 16/583,664, filed on Sep. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,221,970.
Application 16/583,664 is a continuation of application No. 14/751,128, filed on Jun. 25, 2015, granted, now 10,496,556, issued on Dec. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/016,992, filed on Jun. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0129393 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 12/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 12/1491 (2013.01) [G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01); G06F 2212/262 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
detecting a membership change in a protection group that includes at least one volume, wherein a protection group management schedule applies to the protection group, wherein:
the membership change comprises an update to a volume list associated with the protection group; and
the update to the volume list is based on a host being added or removed from the protection group; and
updating, based on the membership change in the protection group, the protection group management schedule to apply to all storage resources that are included in the protection group after the membership change.