Patent ID: 8479036

Claim:
A method of disaster recovery (DR) replication throttling in a computing environment by a processor device, comprising: sending, from a remote system including a replicated data entity, a request to a central replication management component to enter a DR mode as a result of a testing operation and negotiating the DR mode to the central replication management component as a DR mode entry event; arresting communication between a source data entity at a primary system and the replicated data entity at the remote system by configuring a first firewall at the remote system including the replicated data entity to all incoming replication activity from the source data entity; distributing, by the central replication management component, the DR mode entry event to each member in a shared group; configuring a second firewall at the source data entity at the primary system, in response to receiving the DR mode entry event from the central replication management component; and enforcing the DR mode by following one or more replication policies between a source system including the source data entity and a remote system, until a DR mode exit event is propagated to each member in the shared group.