Abstract:
A storage device system includes an information processing device, a first storage device equipped with a first storage volume, and a second storage device equipped with a second storage volume. The information processing device and the first storage device are communicatively connected to one another. Also, the first storage device and the second storage device are communicatively connected to one another. The information processing device is equipped with a first write request section that requests to write data in the first storage device according to a first communications protocol. The first storage device is equipped with a second write request section that requests to write data in the second storage device according to a second communications protocol. The information processing device creates first data including a first instruction to be executed in the second storage device. The information processing device transmits to the first write request section a request to write the first data in the first storage volume according to the first communications protocol. When the first data written in the first storage volume is an instruction to the second storage device, the first storage device transmits to the second write request section a request to write the first data in the second storage volume according to the second communications protocol. The second storage device executes the first instruction set in the first data written in the second storage volume.
Abstract:
A data processing system includes at least a first storage system, a second storage system and a third storage system. The third storage system maintains a replication of data stored in the first storage system. When updating data in the first storage system, the first storage system updates the replication of data stored in the third storage system and creates a journal. The journal is formed from a copy of data used for update and update information such as a write command for update, etc. The second storage system also maintains a replication of data stored in the first storage system. The second storage system obtains the journal, and updates data stored therein corresponding to data stored in the first storage system in the order of data update performed in the first storage system. When updating data stored in the third storage system corresponding to data stored in the first storage system, the third storage system creates a journal using data update numbers created in the first storage system. When the first storage system fails, the second storage system obtains the journal from the third storage system, and updates data stored therein corresponding to data stored in the first storage system in the order of data update performed in the first storage system.
Abstract:
Database replication systems replicate blocks of transaction steps or operations with synchronous replication, and perform dual writes with queuing and blocking of transactions. Tokens are used to prepare a target database for replication from a source database and to confirm the preparation. Database replication systems switch between a synchronous replication mode and an asynchronous replication mode, and then back to a synchronous replication mode, based on detection of selected events.
Abstract:
In a remote mirroring system, device, and method, a master storage unit stores information in a log and uses the information from the log to quickly resynchronize slave images following a failure in the master storage unit. Upon receiving a write request from a host, the master storage unit stores a write entry in the log. The write entry includes information that identifies a portion of the slave images that may be unsynchronized from the master image due to the write request. The master storage unit then proceeds to update the master image and the slave images. The log is preserved through the failure, such that the.log is available to the master storage unit upon recovery from the failure. When the master storage unit is operational following the failure, the master storage unit resynchronizes the slave images to the master image by copying those portions of the master image indicated in the log to the slave images.
Abstract:
Crash recovery with asynchronous consistent snapshots in persistent memory stores of a processing environment. A processing environment includes a user program and infrastructure-maintained data structures. The infrastructure-maintained data structures include a log of updates made to program data structures and a snapshot of the state of the program data structures. The systems and methods include writing log entries in the log to a transient memory. The log entries correspond to store instructions and memory management instructions operating on a nonvolatile memory (NVM), and input/output (I/O) operations executed by program instructions of the user program. Each of the log entries represents an effect of a corresponding operation in the program instructions. The systems and methods also include creating a snapshot in the NVM after a consistent program point based on the log of updates. The snapshot provides a rollback position during restart following a crash.
Abstract:
A system for replicating data comprising includes a first and a second computing device. The first computing device has a first storage unit configured to store block level data, a second storage unit and a volatile memory. The second computing device has a third storage unit and a fourth storage unit configured to store block level data, the third storage unit being communicatively coupled to the second storage unit. The first computing device is configured to receive write requests each containing payload data, write the payload data of the write requests to the volatile memory and append the payload data to the second storage unit, and acknowledge the write requests prior to writing the respective payload data to the second storage unit. The second computing device is configured to detect new data in the third storage unit and apply the new data to the fourth storage unit.
Abstract:
If the first storage apparatus is suspended, it is determined which of the update number which the journal recently reflected in the second storage apparatus comprises and the update number which the journal recently reflected in the third storage apparatus comprises is the newer. It is determined, in the newer storage apparatus which is determined to comprise the newer update number, whether one or more differential journals from the journal comprising the update number next to the update number which is not determined to be the newer to the journal comprising the update number determined to be the newer exist or not. If the result of the determination is positive, from the newer storage apparatus to the previous storage apparatus which is not the newer of the second and the third storage apparatuses, one or more differential JNLs are copied. In the previous storage apparatus, one or more differential JNLs are reflected in order of the update numbers, to the data volumes in the previous storage apparatus.