Patent ID: 8898507

Claim:
A method, comprising: discovering, using a processor, WWPNs for storage arrays in a system by reading an interface of the storage arrays; discovering WWPNs of ports of the discovered storage arrays; discovering WWPNs of journaling appliances; discovering WWPNs of splitters seen by the journaling appliances; discovering paths for the splitters; discovering network adaptor addresses for the paths; identifying networks zones in SANs having connectivity with at least one of the storage arrays and at least one of the journaling appliances; determining ones of the storage arrays logged in and zoned in the SANs; determining WWPNs of the storage arrays logged in and zoned in the SANs; determining WWPN zoning of the storage arrays; identify adaptors for storage arrays zoned and logged in; determining ones of the storage arrays and ones of the journaling appliances zoned together for correlating replication networks host; determining ones of the storage arrays seen the journaling appliances for correlating ones of the splitters; identifying disaster recovery pools; creating a disaster recovery policy; creating disaster recovery service offerings, the service offerings including geographically separated primary and secondary storage; receiving a user selection of a disaster recovering service offering; assigning hosts to the selected service offering; creating a hypervisor at primary and secondary infrastructure for the selected service offering; creating a volume at the primary and secondary infrastructure for the selected service offering; mapping and masking volumes to the journaling appliance and the hypervisor for the selected service offering; and enabling replication in accordance with the selected service offering.