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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2005
Pierre-fortin Jean-denis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Francis Bartfai, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sonny Earl Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nicolas Marc Clayton, Warrington, GB;
Pierre-Fortin Jean-Denis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Francis Bartfai, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sonny Earl Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nicolas Marc Clayton, Warrington, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, deployment and program for managing data transfer in consistency group formation. In one embodiment, nodes are periodically polled to determine traffic conditions. An estimated drain time for a node such as the most congested node, for example, is compared to a drain time limit and if within a vicinity of the drain time limit, operations switch to a consistency group formation mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.