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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Serge Bourbonnais, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul M. Cadarette, Hemet, CA (US);
Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Raleigh, NC (US);
David B. Petersen, Great Falls, VA (US);
Gregory W. Vance, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for managing a plurality of workloads executing on both a primary system and on a secondary system, and synchronizing both a plurality of software data and a plurality of hardware data stored on the primary system with the secondary system is provided. The method may include receiving a region switch request and stopping the execution of the plurality of workloads on the primary system; suspending the replication of the plurality of software and hardware data stored on the primary system with the plurality of software and hardware data stored on the secondary system; and switching the replication of the plurality of software data and the plurality of hardware data that occurs from the primary system to the secondary system to occur from the secondary system to the primary system. The method may further include activating the execution of and synchronizing the plurality of workloads on the secondary system.