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Availability modeling in redundant OpenStack private clouds

Faraji Shoyari, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1002/spe.2953
  3. Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. In cloud computing services, high availability is one of the quality of service requirements which is necessary to maintain customer confidence. High availability systems can be built by applying redundant nodes and multiple clusters in order to cope with software and hardware failures. Due to cloud computing complexity, dependability analysis of the cloud may require combining state-based and nonstate-based modeling techniques. This article proposes a hierarchical model combining reliability block diagrams and continuous time Markov chains to evaluate the availability of OpenStack private clouds, by considering different scenarios. The steady-state availability, downtime, and cost are used as measures to compare different scenarios studied in the article. The heterogeneous workloads are considered in the proposed models by varying the number of CPUs requested by each customer. Both hardware and software failure rates of OpenStack components used in the model are collected via setting up a real OpenStack environment applying redundancy techniques. Results obtained from the proposed models emphasize the positive impact of redundancy on availability and downtime. Considering the tradeoff between availability and cost, system providers can choose an appropriate scenario for a specific purpose. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
  6. Keywords:
  7. Continuous time systems ; Failure analysis ; Hierarchical systems ; Maintenance ; Markov chains ; Platform as a Service (PaaS) ; Program processors ; Quality of service ; Redundancy ; Cloud computing services ; Continuous time Markov chain ; Dependability analysis ; Heterogeneous workloads ; High availability systems ; Reliability block diagrams ; Software and hardwares ; Steady-state availability ; Availability
  8. Source: Software - Practice and Experience ; Volume 51, Issue 6 , 2021 , Pages 1218-1241 ; 00380644 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2953