Emc Corporation

Tzach Schechner

Oded Kedem

Assaf Natanzon

Yuval Aharoni

Alex Solan

Nir Shasha

Avi Owshanko

A method, system, and program product for use in a data replication environment, the data replication environment comprising a plurality of data protection appliances, each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances comprising a journal, the method comprising creating a virtual consistency group comprising a virtual journal; wherein the virtual consistency group is configured to replicate a production volume, dividing the virtual consistency group into segments; wherein each segment corresponds to a portion of the production volume and a portion of the virtual journal, and assigning each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances a segment of the virtual consistency group.

Virtualized CG

Methods and apparatus for a continuous data protection system including replication and journaling, to detect a first problem, react to the first problem, recover from the first problem, determine whether to enter a regulation state due to repetition of the first problem, enter the regulation state, and maintain the regulation state after detecting the first problem again.

Methods and apparatus for action regulation for continuous data replication systems

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Tzach Schechner