ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,667, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Tiering-aware snapshotting for multiple-tier storage systems" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to determine, for a given portion of data of a tiering-aware snapshot that is to be restored to a target storage system comprising a set of two or more storage tiers, tiering information characterizing a given storage tier in which the given portion of data was stored when the tiering-aware snapshot was taken. The at least one processing device is also configur...