Framework for enabling highly available distributed applications for utility computing

Lakshmi, J and Nandy, SK and Narayan, Ranjani and Varadarajan, Keshavan (2006) Framework for enabling highly available distributed applications for utility computing. In: 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications,, Dec 04-06, 2006, Sorrento, Italy, pp. 549-560.

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Abstract

The move towards IT outsourcing is the first step towards an environment where compute infrastructure is treated as a service. In utility computing this IT service has to honor Service Level Agreements (SLA) in order to meet the desired Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. Such an environment requires reliable services in order to maximize the utilization of the resources and to decrease the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Such reliability cannot come at the cost of resource duplication, since it increases the TCO of the data center and hence the cost per compute unit. We, in this paper, look into aspects of projecting impact of hardware failures on the SLAs and techniques required to take proactive recovery steps in case of a predicted failure. By maintaining health vectors of all hardware and system resources, we predict the failure probability of resources based on observed hardware errors/failure events, at runtime. This inturn influences an availability aware middleware to take proactive action (even before the application is affected in case the system and the application have low recoverability). The proposed framework has been prototyped on a system running HP-UX. Our offline analysis of the prediction system on hardware error logs indicate no more than 10% false positives. This work to the best of our knowledge is the first of its kind to perform an end-to-end analysis of the impact of a hardware fault on application SLAs, in a live system.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2010 06:13
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2018 15:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30518

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