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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ilias Iliadis, Rueschlikon, SZ;
Elliot K. Kolodner, Haifa, IL;
Dmitry Sotnikov, Givataim, IL;
Paula K Ta-Shma, Tel Aviv, IL;
Vinodh Venkatesan, Horgen, SZ;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Machines, systems and methods for optimizing data replication in a distributed storage network, the method comprising determining a need to create a replica for a data item in a remote failure zone in a data storage network; creating a temporary replica of the data item in a local failure zone defined in the data storage network, in response to determining that it is beneficial to create the temporary replica in the local failure zone based on a cost versus reliability improvement analysis; attempting to create the replica in the remote failure zone; and removing the temporary replica from the local failure zone, in response to successfully creating the replica in the remote failure zone.