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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSherry Lynn Gordon, Clinton Gene Laschkewitsch, Michael James McDermott, Amartey Scott Pearson
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Method and apparatus for ensuring availability of disk units in a disk pool which may be switched between a primary system and one or more backup systems. One embodiment provides a method for ensuring accessibility of one or more disk units by a system, comprising: configuring a storage pool for the system; validating availability of the one or more disk units for the storage pool; and selecting one or more valid disk units for the storage pool. The method may further comprise ranking availability of each disk unit for the storage pool and selecting one or more valid disk units for the storage pool according to availability ranking.
A method for ensuring accessibility of one or more disk units by a system, comprising:
A signal bearing medium, comprising a program which, when executed by a processor, performs operations for ensuring accessibility of one or more disk units by a system, the operations comprising:
A system, comprising:
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