US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 15 for "File system indexing of backup slices for large virtual machines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,858, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"File system indexing of backup slices for large virtual machines" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Punjab, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing virtual machines includes obtaining a backup request for a full backup of a VM, in response to the backup request: performing a logical slicing of VM data associated with the VM to obtain a set of logical slices, storing the set of backup slices in a backup storage system, after storing the set of backup slices, obtaining backup metadata associated with the VM...