Patent ID: 6775826
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for having a workload scenario accessed and played in a data storage environment including at least one host computer and a first storage system that is in communication with the at least one host computer and which environment includes a plurality of data storage volumes representing data stored on physical storage devices that are part of the first data storage system, the method comprising the steps of:accessing a trace of I/O commands from the at least one host computer to the first data storage system that are experienced on one or more data storage volumes of the plurality of data storage volumes that represent data stored on the first data storage system; and playing a replication of the trace of I/O commands on one or more data storage volumes included with a second data storage system, and wherein the playing of the trace includes analyzing the trace of I/O commands and creating replay I/O commands from the trace of I/O commands that can be replayed on the second data storage system.