International Business Machines Corporation

David B Petersen

Gail Andrea Spear

Michael G Fitzpatrick

Paul Michael Cadarette

Serge Bourbonnais

Gregory Walter Vance

Robert Frederic Kern

William Frank Micka

John Glenn Thompson

Harry M Yudenfriend

Jaime F Anaya

Gregory E McBride

David Michael Shackelford

Alan George McClure

Pamela McLean

Jeffrey Mark Nick

Jing Cheng

Nicolas Marc Clayton

You-Chin Gene Fuh

James Z Teng

Thomas Lumpp

Isabell Schwertle

Miao Zheng

Larry Richard Perry

Wolfgang Schaeberle

Harold Glen Slone

Michael Brandner

Michael Frankenberg

Daniel Roman

Hong Jing Ying

Warren Keith Stanley

Kenneth Wayne Boyd

Lisa Joan Gundy

Ronald Maynard Kern

Juergen P Schneider

Donald Fred Ault

Douglas Michael Zobre

John Simon Tilling

Robert Vaughn Geiner

Martin W Cocks

Michael J Shannon

John R Eells

Stephen J Schmandt

Ian Geoffrey Redding

Paul M Cadarettte

Jeurgen Schneider

Nils Torbjorn Kaving

Rune Willy Ludvig

David A Clitherow

John A Stanbi

A system for maintaining a two-site configuration for continuous availability over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with a priority workload, the first instance being designated as an active instance; a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, the second instance being designated as a standby instance; a software replication module configured to replicate a unit of work data associated with the priority workload from a first data object associated with the active instance to a second data object associated with the standby instance, and a hardware replication module configured to replicate an image from a first storage volume to a copy on a second storage volume, wherein the first storage volume is associated with the first computing site, and the second storage volume is associated with a third computing site.

Maintaining two-site configuration for workload availability between sites at unlimited distances for products and services

A method includes reading, by a capture engine, log data. The log data can be synchronously hardware-replicated. The log data reflects that an update was started for a database of a first site. The capture engine corresponds to a capture engine of a second site. The method also includes identifying, by the capture engine, the update. The method also includes determining whether the update was committed to the database of the first site. The method also includes replicating, by an apply engine, the update to a database of the second site based on the determining. The update is replicated to the database of the second site based on a determination that the update was committed to the database of the first site. The committed update corresponds to a consistent replication of updates across two or more databases that reside in multiple database management systems.

Ensuring consistent replication of updates in databases

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for performing a failover between a first storage system and a second storage system. Data is synchronized between the first storage system and the second storage system. A failover is performed from the first storage system to the second storage system in response to a failover event at the first storage system while synchronizing the data. A determination is made that a first storage unit of the first storage system is inoperable and that that a second storage unit of the first storage system is operable in response to the failover event. In response to determining that the second storage unit is operable, a resynchronization is initiated to copy updates to a second storage unit of the second storage system mirroring the second storage unit of the first storage system to the second storage unit of the first storage system.

Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a second storage system mirroring the first storage system

A system for providing continuous availability comprises a second computing site that is geographically remote from a first computing site. The second computing site comprises a storage unit configured to store units of work data and data synchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a group of workloads configured to process the units of work data asynchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a software replication module configured not to replicate any data while the first computing site is available.

Zero-data loss recovery for active-active sites configurations

A computer program product is provided for data currency improvement in a system having data sites running first and second applications within a common operating system hosted on a real or virtualized server and includes a computer readable storage medium having sequences of program instructions. The sequences of program instructions are readable and executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to establish first and second sites as active standby and active query sites, respectively, direct first and second transactions of the first application to the first site and to at least the second site, respectively, monitor replication delays from times at which data updates occur at the first site to times at which the data updates are replicated at least at the second site and set a delay for responding to the second transactions of the first application in accordance with the monitoring independent of a setting of any delay for responding to second application requests.

Data currency improvement for cross-site queries

A system for providing reliable availability of a general workload and continuous availability of a priority workload over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with the priority workload, wherein the first instance is designated as an active instance, a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, wherein the second instance is designated as a standby instance, a third computing site configured to restart a third instance associated with the general workload, and a workload availability module configured to synchronize a portion of data associated with the third instance with a corresponding portion of data associated with the second instance.

Managing continuous priority workload availability and general workload availability between sites at unlimited distances for products and services

Embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for maintaining continuous availability. An embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a unit of work data. The unit of work data is distributed among the plurality of workloads using either an active/standby configuration, an active/query configuration, an active/partitioned configuration, or an active/active configuration. A primary workload is selected from a plurality of workloads to process the unit of work data based on a workload distribution rule. It is determined if the primary workload is capable of processing the unit of work data based on user configurable settings. If the primary site is capable of processing the unit of work data then the unit of work data is transmitted to the primary workload. Otherwise the unit of work data is transmitted to a secondary workload. The unit of work data is replicated between the primary workload and the secondary workload.

Variable configurations for workload distribution across multiple sites

A method for managing a plurality of workloads executing on both a primary system and on a secondary system, and synchronizing both a plurality of software data and a plurality of hardware data stored on the primary system with the secondary system is provided. The method may include receiving a region switch request and stopping the execution of the plurality of workloads on the primary system; suspending the replication of the plurality of software and hardware data stored on the primary system with the plurality of software and hardware data stored on the secondary system; and switching the replication of the plurality of software data and the plurality of hardware data that occurs from the primary system to the secondary system to occur from the secondary system to the primary system. The method may further include activating the execution of and synchronizing the plurality of workloads on the secondary system.

Management and synchronization of batch workloads with active/active sites OLTP workloads

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