Patent ID: 7475280

Claim:
A method for providing high availability of data replication management, said method comprising: a first storage management server receiving a storage management command; wherein said first storage management server is in a high availability environment; wherein said first storage management server is active; wherein said first storage management server communicates with one or more alternate storage management servers within said high availability environment; wherein a second storage management server of said one or more alternate storage management servers is active; said first storage management server notifying said second storage management server about said storage management command; said second storage management server updating an internal state with a command processing status; said second storage management server monitoring for a command processing event or a command completion notification; wherein said command processing event is of a type of command processing event types; wherein said command processing event types comprises: change to a hardware data replication environment type and a data replication change type; said first storage management server processing said storage management command; said first storage management server notifying said second storage management server about a result of said processing of said storage management command using said command completion notification; and said second storage management server completing a processing of said storage management command based on said result.