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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2004
Sahn Lam, Daly City, CA (US);
Yinfung Fong, Campbell, CA (US);
Sahn Lam, Daly City, CA (US);
Yinfung Fong, Campbell, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An application implemented on a server in a network of storage servers can be provided to manage the data replication relationships implemented between the storage servers of the network. In one embodiment, this server can be designated the manager server, and can provide replication relationships to enable a user to centrally manage the plurality of data replication relationships. In one embodiment, the manager server includes a network adapter to connect the manager server to a network, a storage facility to contain a data structure configured to represent the plurality of data replication relationships, and a processor to automatically input the plurality of data replication relationships into the data structure, to automatically generate a plurality of replication policies, and to apply at least one of the plurality of replication policies to each data replication relationship.