Availability Evaluation and Maintenance Policy of Data Center Infrastructure
Resumo
The convergence of communication networks and the demand for storage and processing capacities for large amounts of information, especially in recent years, has driven requests for everything-as-a-service and has been generating, on an increasing scale, demands for new data center constructions. However, to meet dependability attributes, the design of these infrastructures needs to consider, at least, the system’s availability to be achieved. In this paper, we evaluate the availability of a Tier 1 data center infrastructure, considering the use of blade systems. We use modeling techniques based on reliability block diagrams and stochastic Petri nets to simulate a maintenance policy encompassed at different service levels (SLA). The results show dependability metrics, focusing on the availability and maintenance of these networks. We highlight the most severe difficulties in achieving high availability when there is no component redundancy, and the intervals between maintenance are long.
Palavras-chave:
Data center, availability evaluation, maintenance policy, blade server, service level agreements (SLA)
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K. Leigh and P. Ranganathan, “Blades as a general-purpose infrastruc-ture for future system architectures: Challenges and solutions,” HP LabsTech. Rep. HPL-2006-182, 2007.
C. Heisinget al., “Ieee recommended practice for the design of reliable industrial and commercial power systems,” IEEE Inc., New York, 2007.
K. Trivedi, D. S. Kim, A. Roy, and D. Medhi, “Dependability and security models,” in Design of Reliable Communication Networks, 2009. DRCN 2009. 7th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks, oct. 2009, pp. 11 –20.
W. Kuo and M. J. Zuo, Optimal reliability modeling: principles and applications. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
P. R. M. Maciel, K. Trivedi, R. Mathias JR, and D. Kim, "Dependability modeling." In Performance and Dependability in Service Computing: Concepts, Techniques and Research Directions, pp. 53-97. IGI Global, 2012.
W. R. Blischke and D. N. P. Murthy, Case studies in reliability and maintenance/edited by Wallace R. Blischke, D.N. Prabhakar Murthy. John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ: 2003. [Online]. Available: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley031/2002191075.html
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M. Xie, K.-L. Poh, and Y.-S. Dai, Computing System Reliability: Models and Analysis. Springer, 2004.
Murata, Tadao. "Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications." Proceedings of the IEEE 77, no. 4 (1989): 541-580.
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Publicado
23/11/2020
Como Citar
CAMBOIM, Kádna; MELO, Carlos; ARAUJO, Jean; ALENCAR, Fernanda.
Availability Evaluation and Maintenance Policy of Data Center Infrastructure. In: TRABALHOS EM ANDAMENTO - SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONAIS (SBESC), 10. , 2020, Evento Online.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2020
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p. 198-203.
ISSN 2763-9002.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbesc_estendido.2020.13113.
