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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Pradipta K. Banerjee, Bangalore, IN;
Sudipta Biswas, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Multi-site disaster recovery mechanism performed by the following steps: (i) providing a disaster recovery (DR) system that includes a plurality of sites where each site of the plurality of sites actively serves infrastructure-as-a-service to a set of tenant(s); (ii) for each site of the plurality of sites, determining the following characteristics of the site: workloads that require DR, workloads characteristics, tenants and capabilities; (iii) for each site of the plurality of sites, determining a plurality of associated sites; and (iv) on condition that a disaster occurs which impacts a first site of the plurality of sites, distributing a primary site workload of the first site across the associated sites of the first site. The determination of the plurality of associated sites associated with each site is based upon at least one of the following characteristics: capacity, workloads that require DR, workloads characteristics, tenants and/or capabilities.