Patent ID: 7870095

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: replicate a base table stored on an active server to a first and second standby server, wherein the base table comprises configuration parameters for storage devices, logical volumes, physical interconnections, logical interconnections, and logical subsystems of a storage system; replicate first sessions from a session table on the active server to the first standby server and second sessions from the session table to the second standby server, the first sessions and the second sessions each comprising a distinct set of sessions from the session table, wherein the session table stores a plurality of sessions, each session comprising a plurality of copy sets, each copy set corresponding to one or more storage volumes in a copy services relationship, and wherein the active server manages the sessions using the base table and the session table and the first and second standby servers do not manage the sessions; transfer management of the first sessions to the first standby server; terminate management of the first sessions by the active server; wherein the computer readable program is further configured to cause the computer to replicate the first sessions, the second sessions, and the base table using Structured Query Language (SQL) commands; and wherein replicating first sessions from a session table on the active server to the first standby server comprises reading a row from the active server session table; constructing a SQL command for the row, wherein the SQL command is configured to insert data of the active server session table row in a standby server session table row; and applying the SQL command to a specified standby server session table.