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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:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Amy N. Blea, Round Rock, TX (US);

David R. Blea, Tucson, AZ (US);

Gregory E. McBride, Vail, AZ (US);

John J. Wolfgang, Midlothian, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 11/2074 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 11/2069 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for switching a storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration includes receiving instruction to change from an original target storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration including: a source storage subsystem including one or more source volumes from which data is copied in first copy services relationships, the one or more source volumes being accessible to an application, and the original target storage subsystem including one or more original target volumes to which data is copied in the first copy services relationships; selecting a new target storage subsystem to replace the original target storage subsystem, creating second copy services relationships between one or more new target volumes on the new target storage subsystem and the one or more source volumes on the source storage subsystem using multi-target functionality, and terminating the first copy services relationships after all the second copy services relationships are full duplex.


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