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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:
Jul. 07, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Lei Chen, Shanghai, CN;

Yi Yang, Shanghai, CN;

Jun Wei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1844 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/275 (2019.01);
Abstract

A technique for managing a data replication mode between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device includes in response to a data replication state between the primary storage device and the secondary storage device satisfying a first predetermined condition, selecting at least one candidate logical unit from a plurality of logical units implementing synchronous replication in the primary storage device at least according to priority information of the plurality of logical units. A data replication mode of the at least one candidate logical unit is then modified from synchronous replication to asynchronous replication.


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