SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISK IDENTIFICATION IN A CLOUD BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

1 . A method for identifying corresponding disks, comprising:

determining identifying information of a primary disk, wherein the primary disk is a logical disk;

causing the primary disk to be enlarged to create a first additional disk space;

causing primary metadata to be written to the first additional disk space, wherein the primary metadata includes the identifying information of the primary disk;

determining a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk by comparing the primary metadata to replicated metadata associated with the replicated disk, wherein the replicated disk is a logical disk; and

matching the corresponding replicated disk with the primary disk.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

creating a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk when no corresponding replicated disk is found.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the created corresponding replicated disk is a copy of the primary disk.

4 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

causing the replicated disk to be enlarged to create a second additional disk space; and

causing the primary metadata to be written to the second additional disk space;

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata includes at least one of: a unique identifier, a priority level a disk has in a quality of service (QoS) scheme, an identifier of a machine associated with a disk, a name of a disk, and an address of a disk.

6 . The method of claim 1 , where the primary disk and the replicated disk are stored on at least one physical drive.

7 . The method of claim 6 , where the physical drive comprises at least one of: a hard disk drive, a solid-state drive, a network-attached storage, and a storage area network disk.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

executing a replication action on the replicated disk based on the metadata.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the replication action includes at least one of:

backing up data to the replicated disk, updating data to the replicated disk, and accessing data from the replicated disk.

10 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing a processing circuitry to perform a process, the process comprising:

determining identifying information of a primary disk, wherein the primary disk is a logical disk;

causing the primary disk to be enlarged to create a first additional disk space;

causing primary metadata to be written to the first additional disk space, wherein the primary metadata includes the identifying information of the primary disk;

determining a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk by comparing the primary metadata to replicated metadata associated with the replicated disk, wherein the replicated disk is a logical disk; and

matching the corresponding replicated disk with the primary disk.

11 . A system for identifying corresponding disks, comprising:

a processing circuitry; and

a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to:

determine identifying information of a primary disk, wherein the primary disk is a logical disk;

cause the primary disk to be enlarged to create a first additional disk space;

cause primary metadata to be written to the first additional disk space, wherein the primary metadata includes the identifying information of the primary disk;

determine a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk by comparing the primary metadata to replicated metadata associated with the replicated disk, wherein the replicated disk is a logical disk; and

match the corresponding replicated disk with the primary disk.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:

create a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk when no corresponding replicated disk is found.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the created corresponding replicated disk is a copy of the primary disk.

14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the system is further configured to:

cause the replicated disk to be enlarged to create a second additional disk space; and

cause the primary metadata to be written to the second additional disk space;

15 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the metadata includes at least one of: a unique identifier, a priority level a disk has in a quality of service (QoS) scheme, an identifier of a machine associated with a disk, a name of a disk, and an address of a disk.

16 . The system of claim 11 , where the primary disk and the replicated disk are stored on at least one physical drive.

17 . The system of claim 16 , where the physical drive comprises at least one of: a hard disk drive, a solid-state drive, a network-attached storage, and a storage area network disk.

18 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:

execute a replication action on the replicated disk based on the metadata.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the replication action includes at least one of:

backing up data to the replicated disk, updating data to the replicated disk, and accessing data from the replicated disk.

20 . A method for identifying corresponding disks, comprising:

determining identifying information of a primary disk, wherein the primary disk is a logical disk;

creating first additional disk space associated with the primary disk;

writing primary metadata to the first additional disk space, wherein the metadata is based upon the identifying information of the primary disk;

determining a corresponding replicated disk that corresponds to the primary disk by comparing the primary metadata to replicated metadata associated with the replicated disk, wherein the replicated disk is a logical disk; and

matching the corresponding replicated disk with the primary disk.