Patent ID: 7984262
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing data during a migration of data from a source logical partition to a target logical partition, the method comprising: transforming data associated with the source logical partition into a plurality of partition records with a source migration services partition by copying the data associated with the source logical partition, storing the data associated with the source logical partition in logical memory of the source migration services partition, and forming the plurality of partition records from the data associated with the source logical partition stored in the logical memory of the source migration services partition; and transmitting the plurality of partition records from the source migration services partition to a target migration services partition to cause the target migration services partition to process the plurality of partition records by transforming the plurality of partition records into the data associated with the source logical partition and loading the data associated with the source logical partition into the target logical partition.