Patent ID: 9063994
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for data replication, the system comprising: a first site, the first site comprising a first storage medium; a second site comprising a second storage medium; a virtual service layer coupled to the first site and the second site; wherein the virtual service layer has a splitter; a distributed replication service, the distributed replication service comprising a storage medium and communicatively coupled to the first site; and computer-executable logic operating in memory, wherein the computer-executable program logic is configured for execution of: enabling the virtual service layer to consume the first storage medium and the second storage medium and map the storage mediums as one or more virtual storage volumes; wherein the virtual service layer presents the one or more virtual storage volumes at the first and second site; wherein the virtual service layer enables cotemporaneous read write access to the one or more virtual storage volumes at both the first site and the second site and enables a virtual machine accessing the one or more virtual storage volumes to be transparently migrated from the first site to the second site; and enabling the distributed replication service to create a continuous data protection image of the data written to one or more virtual storage volume using the splitter of the virtual service layer, wherein the continuous data protection image presents an image of the one or more virtual storage volumes.