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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2009
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Yuval Aharoni, Kfar-Saba, IL;
Tzach Schechner, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Oded Kedem, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Yuval Aharoni, Kfar-Saba, IL;
Tzach Schechner, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Oded Kedem, Tel-Aviv, IL;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and program product for use in a data replication environment, the data replication environment comprising a plurality of data protection appliances, each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances comprising a journal, the method comprising creating a virtual consistency group comprising a virtual journal; wherein the virtual consistency group is configured to replicate a production volume, dividing the virtual consistency group into segments; wherein each segment corresponds to a portion of the production volume and a portion of the virtual journal, and assigning each data protection appliance of the plurality of data protection appliances a segment of the virtual consistency group.