Continuous data replication
In a first embodiment, computer implemented method and computer program product for executing an action selected from the group consisting of removing a LUN from a consistency group on a production site and adding a LUN to a consistency group on a production site; wherein the action is performed without loss of a journal tracking the changes to the consistency group at a replication site, the replication site replicating the consistency group on the production site.
1. A computer program product for use in journal based replication replicating a consistency group on a production site to a replicated consistency group on a replication site; wherein each of the consistency groups is enabled to comprise Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs); the program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable program code for execution on one or more processors for replication of data, the code configured to enable execution of:
executing an action selected from a group consisting of removing a LUN from the consistency group on the production site and adding a LUN to the consistency group on the production site; wherein a copy of Input/Output (IO) directed to the consistency group on the production site is split to the replication site; wherein the action is performed maintaining a journal on the replication site tracking the changes to the consistency group at the production site on the replication site; wherein the journal enables the replicated consistency group on the replication site to be rolled to a Point In Time (PIT) within a protection window by applying data in the journal to the consistency group;
rolling the replicated consistency group on the replication site to a PIT using the journal;
determining if the time of the PIT is before the time the LUN was added;
based on a negative determination that the PIT is before the time the LUN was added, exposing the consistency group at the PIT on the replication site; and
based on a positive determination; not exposing the added LUN in the consistency group at exposed PIT.
2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the selected action is removing the LUN from the consistency group and the code is further configured to enable:
marking the LUN as removed on the replication site in a do portion of the journal on the replication site; and
making the LUN unavailable on the replication site once a remove LUN command is applied from the do portion of the journal;
enabling access to a point in time within the protection window containing the removed LUN.
3. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein the code is further configured to enable:
rolling the replicated consistency group on the replication site to a point in time (PIT);
determining that the PIT is before the LUN was removed from the consistency group;
exposing the PIT including the removed LUN.
4. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein making the LUN unavailable comprises marking the removed LUN on the replication site as a shadow LUN.
5. The computer program product of claim 4 wherein the code is further configured to enable:
deleting the shadow LUN when an inverse of a remove LUN is deleted from an undo portion of the journal.
6. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein making the LUN unavailable comprises reading data stored on the LUN on the replication site into the journal on the replication site and deleting the LUN.
7. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein the code is further configured to enable:
adding an opposite of a remove LUN command to an undo portion of the journal once the remove LUN command is applied from a do portion journal.
8. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein the code is further configured to enable:
determining that a point in time (PIT) is requested before the LUN was deleted;
creating a LUN on the system;
copying data from the journal corresponding to the deleted LUN to the created LUN; and
exposing the PIT with the created LUN.
9. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the selected action is adding a LUN to the consistency group and wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:
marking a corresponding added LUN as dirty on the replication site;
synchronizing the added LUN on the production site and the dirty LUN on the replication site; and
marking the LUN as added in a checkpoint in the journal on the replication site.
10. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:
adding an inverse of an add LUN command to an undo portion of the journal when an add LUN command is processed from the do portion of the journal.
11. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:
upon receiving an IO to a non-exposed LUN on the replication site, wherein a non-exposed LUN is a LUN that is not present in a current point in time, failing the IO to the non-exposed LUN.
12. A computer implemented method enabled to be executed on one or more processors for use in replication of a consistency group on a production site to a replicated consistency group on a replication site; wherein each of the consistency groups is enabled to comprise Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs); the method comprising:
executing an action selected from a group consisting of removing a LUN from the consistency group on the production site and adding a LUN to the consistency group on the production site; wherein a copy of Input/Output (IO) directed to the consistency group on the production site is split to the replication site; wherein the action is performed maintaining a journal on the replication site tracking the changes to the consistency group at the production site on the replication site; wherein the journal enables the replicated consistency group on the replication site to be rolled to a Point In Time (PIT) within a protection window by applying data in the journal to the consistency group; and
in response to a request to roll the consistency group to a point in time:
rolling the replicated consistency group on the replication site to a PIT using the journal;
determining if the time of the PIT is before the time the LUN was added;
based on a negative determination that the PIT is before the time the LUN was added, exposing the PIT on the replication site and the LUN; and
based on a positive determination; not exposing the added LUN in the exposed PIT.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein the selected action is removing the LUN from the consistency group and the method further comprises:
marking the LUN as removed on the replication site in a do portion of the journal on the replication site; and
making the LUN unavailable on the replication site once a remove LUN command is applied from the do portion of the journal.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the method further comprises:
rolling the replicated consistency group to a point in time (PIT);
determining that the PIT is before the LUN was removed;
exposing the PIT including exposing the removed LUN; and
adding the opposite of a remove LUN command to an undo portion of the journal once the remove LUN command is applied from a do portion journal.
15. The method of claim 13 wherein making the LUN unavailable comprises marking the removed LUN on the replication site as a shadow LUN.
16. The method of claim 13 wherein making the LUN unavailable comprises reading the LUN data on the replication site into the journal and deleting the LUN on the replication site.
17. The method of claim 12 wherein the selected action is adding a LUN to the consistency group and wherein the method further comprises:
marking a corresponding added LUN as dirty on the replication site;
synchronizing the added LUN on the production site and the dirty LUN on the replication site;
adding an inverse of an add LUN command to the undo portion of the journal when add LUN command is processed from the do portion of the journal; and
marking the LUN as added in a checkpoint in the journal on the replication site.
18. A system for replication comprising:
a production site, the production site having a splitter and a consistency group; wherein the consistency group comprises volumes;
a replication site, the replication site having a journal and a replicated consistency group for replication of the consistency group; wherein the replicated consistency group comprises replicated volumes, the replicated volumes for replicating the volumes on the production site; and
computer-executable logic operating in memory, wherein the computer-executable program logic is configured to enable execution of:
executing an action selected from a group consisting of removing a Logical Unit Number (LUN) from the consistency group on the production site and adding a LUN to the consistency group on the production site; wherein a copy of Input/Output (IO) directed to the consistency group on the production site is split to the replication site; wherein the action is performed maintaining a journal on the replication site tracking the changes to the consistency group at the production site on the replication site; wherein the journal enables the replicated consistency group on the replication site to be rolled to a Point In Time (PIT) within a protection window by applying data in the journal to the consistency group; and
in response to a request to roll the consistency group to a point in time:
rolling the replicated consistency group on the replication site to a PIT using the journal;
determining if the time of the PIT is before the time the LUN was added;
based on a negative determination that the PIT is before the time the LUN was added, exposing the PIT on the replication site and the LUN; and
based on a positive determination; not exposing the added LUN in the exposed PIT.
19. The system of claim 18 wherein the selected action is removing the LUN from the consistency group and the executable program logic is further configured to enable execution of:
marking the LUN as removed on the replication site in a do portion of the journal on the replication site; and
making the LUN unavailable on the replication site once a remove LUN command is applied from a do portion of the journal.
20. The system of claim 18 wherein the selected action is adding a LUN to the consistency group and wherein the executable program logic is further configured to enable execution of:
marking a corresponding added LUN as dirty on the replication site;
synchronizing the added LUN on the production site and the dirty LUN on the replication site;
adding an inverse of an add LUN command to the undo portion of the journal when add LUN command is processed from the do portion of the journal; and
marking the LUN as added in a checkpoint in the journal on the replication site.