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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
May. 25, 2012
Shay H. Akirav, Petach-Tikva, IL;
Yariv Bachar, Ma'abarot, IL;
Evgeny Budilovsky, Yehud, IL;
Aviv Caro, Modiin, IL;
Elena Drobchenko, Raanana, IL;
Dov N. Hepner, Hertzelyia, IL;
Aharon Lazar, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Ofer Leneman, Kfar Saba, IL;
Itay Maoz, Haifa, IL;
Gil E. Paz, Yehud, IL;
Tzafrir Z. Taub, Givaataim, IL;
Shay H. Akirav, Petach-Tikva, IL;
Yariv Bachar, Ma'abarot, IL;
Evgeny Budilovsky, Yehud, IL;
Aviv Caro, Modiin, IL;
Elena Drobchenko, Raanana, IL;
Dov N. Hepner, Hertzelyia, IL;
Aharon Lazar, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Ofer Leneman, Kfar Saba, IL;
Itay Maoz, Haifa, IL;
Gil E. Paz, Yehud, IL;
Tzafrir Z. Taub, Givaataim, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Pursuant to execution of a predetermined failback policy, if a storage device is not preexistent in a source storage system operable in the computing environment, and an owner of the storage device is one of a DR storage system and a storage system having previously withdrawn from a replication grid, and the DR storage system has authorization to transfer ownership of the storage device by a replacement operation, an instance of the storage device is replicated to the source storage system to generate a replicated instance of the storage device on the source storage system, and ownership of the storage device is designated as the source storage system for each of the instance and the replicated instance of the storage device.