Patent ID: 8484503

Claim:
A system of disaster recovery (DR) replication throttling in a computing environment, comprising: at least one processor device, operable in the computing environment, wherein the processor devices are adapted for: 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, and 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.