Patent ID: 8392754

Claim:
A method of disaster recovery (DR) production takeover in a computing environment comprising a primary storage system including a processor and a plurality of storage devices and a DR storage system remotely located from the primary storage system, the method comprising: replicating each of the plurality of storage devices into the DR storage system in a DR mode of operation; determining, by the processor, that a storage device in the plurality of storage devices is experiencing a failure; pausing the DR mode of operation in response to the determination; moving a production site of the storage device from the primary storage system to the DR storage system; transferring ownership of the storage device from the primary storage system to the DR storage system, wherein the production site is moved and the ownership is transferred while the DR storage system is paused from the DR mode of operation; locally replicating the storage device in the DR storage system subsequent to transferring ownership of the storage device such that the DR storage system includes a first version of the storage device and a replicated version of the storage device; and retaining ownership of the one or more remaining storage devices in the plurality of storage devices by the primary storage system.