Patent 9697376 was granted and assigned to VMware on July, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
User storage is attached to a central storage management system when the central storage management system receives a request to attach a cloud-based user storage thereto. The central storage management system accesses the cloud-based user storage and determines a set of objects stored therein. For each object in the set of objects, the storage management system stores corresponding metadata therein.