US 2016/0259784 A1Published application

Grid based data mobility

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorIan T. Smith

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Abstract

A data migration system and method are disclosed for migrating data from a source server to a target server. The system includes an index containing a plurality of data migration operations in a normalized data model, each data migration operation being stored in association with an attribute, and a data mover communicably connected to the index. The data mover is adapted to move data from the source server to the target server in accordance with the data migration operations contained in the index. The data mover has an attribute corresponding to the associated attribute of at least one data migration operation contained in the index, the attribute indicating the type of data migration operations that can be performed by the data mover.

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Dependent claims

A computer system for migrating data from a source server to a target server, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to store a set of data migration operations in a normalized data model in a single index, each data migration operation being stored in association with an attribute;
program instructions to store an attribute profile in a data mover communicably connected to the single index, the attribute profile indicating the type of data migration operations that are performed by the data mover;
program instructions to acquire, by the single index, the attribute profile stored in the data mover;
program instructions to transmit, from the single index to the data mover, a data migration operation from the set of data migration operations stored in the single index, wherein the attribute profile of the data mover matches an attribute of the transmitted data migration operation;
program instructions to convert the transmitted data migration operation into a data extraction command in a source language of the source server;
program instructions to transmit the data extraction command to the source server;
program instructions to convert the transmitted data migration operation into a data commit command in a target language of the target server;
program instructions to transmit the data commit command to the target server;
and
program instructions to move data from the source server to the target server.

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A computer system for migrating data from a source server to a target server, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to store a set of data migration operations in a normalized data model in a central index, each data migration operation being stored in association with one or more attributes;
program instructions to acquire, by the central index, an attribute profile stored in one of a plurality of data movers communicably connected to the central index;
program instructions to transmit a data migration operation from the set of data migration operations stored in the central index, the data migration operation is transmitted from the central index to one of the plurality of data movers having an attribute profile matching the one or more attributes of the data migration operation;
program instructions to convert the transmitted data migration operation into a data extraction command in a source language of the source server;
program instructions to transmit the data extraction command to the source server;
program instructions to convert the transmitted data migration operation into a data commit command in a target language of the target server;
program instructions to transmit the data commit command to the target server;
and
program instructions to move data from the source server to the target server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application: 15/157,450Filed 18 May 2016
Priority: GB 1214119.87 Aug 2012
Published: 8 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 16/214
Design, administration or maintenance of databases: database migration support
G06F 3/0613
Improving I/O performance: in relation to throughput
G06F 3/0647
Horizontal data movement in storage systems, i.e. moving data in between storage devices or systems: migration mechanisms
G06F 3/067
Adopting a particular infrastructure: distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

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Application13/914,728Continuation · filed 11 Jun 2013
Application15/157,450Continuation
US 2014/0046898 A1Published application
US 9,396,219 B2Related patent
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