Title
Taming the storage dragon: the adventures of hoTMaN
Abstract
HoTMaN (HoT-standby MaNager) is a joint project between MySpace and USC Database Laboratory to design and develop a tool to ensure a 24x7 up-time and ease administration of Terabytes of storage that sits underneath hundreds of database servers. The HoTMaN tool's innovation and uniqueness is that it can, with a few clicks, perform operational tasks that require hundreds of keyboard strokes by "trusted trained" experts. With HoTMaN, MySpace can within minutes migrate the relational database(s) of a failed server to a hot-standby. A process that could take over 1 hour and had a high potential for human error is now performed reliably. A database internal to HoTMaN captures all virtual disks, volume and file configurations associated with each SQL Server and candidate hot-standby servers where SQL server processing could be migrated. HoTMaN is deployed in production and its current operational benefits include: (i) enhanced availability of data, and (ii) planned maintenance and patching.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1559845.1559949
SIGMOD Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
storage dragon,candidate hot-standby server,failed server,operational task,current operational benefit,database server,relational database,hot-standby manager,sql server,sql server processing,hotman tool,human error,storage area network,storage area networks
Planned maintenance,Data mining,Relational database,Computer science,Terabyte,Server,Adventure,Human error,Database server,Database,Storage area network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
6
Authors
8