Patent ID: 8850139

Claim:
A system for changing ownership of a plurality of virtual cartridges in a computing storage environment, comprising: at least one processor device, operable in the computing storage environment, wherein the at least one processor device is configured to: control a plurality of processes and protocols for the changing ownership of the plurality of virtual cartridges from at least one primary location including a primary storage server to at least one secondary location including a secondary storage server, select at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges from a list of the plurality of virtual cartridges from the at least one primary location, send a request to synchronize the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, move a production site for the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges from the at least one primary location to the at least one secondary location, waive ownership of the at least one primary location of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, and as a result of the waiving, allow access to the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges by the at least one secondary location, wherein additional data is written and replicated using resources of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, and wherein the at least one processor device is further configured to, pursuant to the invoking the changing ownership, perform: sending a synchronization request from a replication grid manager to the at least one secondary location for each of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges selected for changing ownership, setting a flag on each of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges selected to be synchronized, wherein the flag indicates the waiving of the ownership of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, storing as a grid history the changing ownership from the at least one primary location to the at least one secondary location, sending a notification to the at least one secondary location to perform the changing ownership, acknowledging the notification for the changing ownership, changing an ownership attribute of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, changing the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges to be write enabled, storing a history entry of the changing ownership in metadata of the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, removing the flag, changing access to read only for the at least one of the plurality of virtual cartridges, and generating a report upon completion of the changing ownership.