Patent ID: 11934283
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for replicating a applications operating on production virtual machines at a production site to a plurality of replica virtual machines at replica site, the method comprising:
identifying, by a data protection system, a plurality of applications operating at the production site;
assessing, by a the data protection system, the plurality of applications based on a replication strategy wherein the assessing includes:
for each application in the plurality of applications, determining one or more hypervisors, one or more datastores, and one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with each application;
identifying failure domains for each application in the plurality of applications in accordance with the replication strategy, wherein the replication strategy ensures: (1) applications are assigned to a same failure domain if they are associated with one or more criteria, wherein the criteria includes having a same IP address, (2) applications in the same failure domain are replicated to different replica virtual machines, and (3) applications that are not assigned to the same failure domain are allowed to be replicated to a same replica virtual machine;
dividing the plurality of applications into two or more subsets of applications according to the replication strategy, wherein each subset of applications can be replicated to the same replica virtual machine; and
creating a single topology for the two or more subsets of applications suggesting a respective replica virtual machine in the plurality of replica virtual machines to which each subset of applications in the two or more subsets of applications should be replicated; and

replicating, by the data protection system, the plurality of applications from the production virtual machines at the production site to the replica virtual machines in the plurality of virtual machines according to the created single topology.