Patent ID: 7395352
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A manager server for centrally managing a plurality of storage servers for data replication, the manager server comprising: a storage facility to store a data structure representing a plurality of data replication relationships for the plurality of storage servers, wherein each data replication relationship identifies data to be replicated and a destination to which the data is to be replicated, and each data replication relationship includes one or more relationship attributes; a network adapter to connect the manager server to a network, the network including the plurality of storage servers, the plurality of storage servers implementing the plurality of data replication relationships; and a processor to establish a replication policy for each data replication relationship, based on the one or more relationship attributes of said each data replication relationship and to apply the replication policy to one or more storage servers implementing the corresponding data replication relationship.