ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,629, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Virtual volume-based replication" was invented by Daniel Doucette (Port Moody, Canada), Cody Hosterman (Mountain View, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.) and Neale Genereux (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronous replication between storage systems with virtualized storage includes: assigning a virtual volume datastore to a pod, the pod including a management object, the virtual volume datastore including virtual machine data; stretching the pod from a first storage system to a second storage system, including copying the ...