ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,784, issued on May 12, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Migrating data using volume clones in a distibuted storage system" was invented by Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.), Gururaj Jayaram Melinamane (Bangalore, India), Sumith Makam (Bangalore, India), Pragyan Anand Maharana (Bengaluru, India) and Nandhini Venkataraman (TamilNadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for data migration including cloning a multiple-logical unit number (LUN) volume into a plurality of cloned single-LUN volumes on a first storage node of a computing system; creating a plurality of new volumes on a second s...