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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT

Application US20260081951A1 Kind: A1 Mar 19, 2026

Assignee

Dell Products L.P.

Inventors

Benjamin A. Randolph, Jeremy O'Hare, Bruce Ferjulian, Ramesh Doddaiah

Abstract

A method, comprising: executing an embedded malware detector, the embedded malware detector being executed inside a first guest operating system, the first guest operating system being executed on a storage processor that is part of a storage system, the storage processor being configured to execute one or more second guest operating systems in addition to the first guest operating system, each of the second guest operating systems being arranged to execute software for reading and/or writing data to one or more storage devices that are provided in the storage system; identifying, by the embedded malware detector, a given one of the storage devices; obtaining, by the embedded malware detector, a snapshot of the given one of the storage devices; mounting, by the embedded malware detector, the snapshot in the first guest operating system; scanning the mounted snapshot for malware.

CPC Classifications

H04L 63/145

Filing Date

2024-09-19

Application No.

18889458