Patent ID: 8910172

Claim:
An application resource switchover method comprising: receiving a switchover indication, wherein the switchover indication includes an indication to switchover execution of at least one service of an application running on a primary system resource to running on a secondary system resource; performing a switchover preparation process in response to receiving the switchover indication, wherein the switchover preparation process includes automatically generating a switchover plan including indications of switchover operations for performance of a switchover process, wherein automatically generating the switchover plan includes utilizing a hierarchical order of application dependencies; and performing the switchover process in which the at least one service of the application is brought up on the secondary system resource in accordance with the switchover plan, wherein the switchover plan comprises a sequence for startup operations associated with the hierarchical order of application dependencies, wherein the application is a multi-tier application and the at least one service is managed by a first disaster recovery aware high availability solution, wherein the first disaster recovery aware high availability solution is different from a second disaster recovery aware high availability solution that manages a different service associated with the application.