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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Alol A. Crasta, Bangalore, IN;
Harshal S. Patil, Bangalore, IN;
Kishorekumar G. Pillai, Bangalore, IN;
Christoph Raisch, Gerlingen, DE;
Nishant Ranjan, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system includes a first server including a first data management module and a second server including a second data management module, and a first and second storage controller. The first and second storage controllers are interconnected by a network configured for reliable data multicasting. The computer system further includes a cross system manager for controlling one or more core storage functions on each of the first and second storage controllers. The computer system further includes computer program instructions to, responsive to a core storage function triggered by the cross system manager: Create a multicast group for each of the first server and the second server in the network, wherein the multicast group is created by a reliable multicast mechanism, and Multicast data write operations of each of the first server and the second server to the first storage controller and the second storage controller of the multicast group.