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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

May. 05, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Michael Brandner, Muenster, DE;

Michael Frankenberg, Saerbeck, DE;

Alan G. McClure, Sahuarita, AZ (US);

David B. Petersen, Great Falls, VA (US);

Daniel Roman, Saint Drezery, FR;

Gail A. Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);

John G. Thompson, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1662 (2013.01); G06F 11/2069 (2013.01); G06F 11/2082 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 11/2071 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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