Title
GeoClouds Modcs: A perfomability evaluation tool for disaster tolerant IaaS clouds
Abstract
Performance and availability are key aspects to evaluate the quality of cloud computing systems. The assessment of these systems should consider the effects of queuing and failure/recovery behavior of data center subsystems and disaster occurrences. Additionally, penalties may be applied if the defined quality level of SLA contracts is not satisfied. Thus, IaaS providers need to evaluate the performability level of its environment, considering, also, the possibility of disasters. A possible approach to protect cloud systems from natural disasters corresponds to the utilization of redundant data centers located far enough apart. However, the time to back up the VM data increases with the distance. To accomplish these issues, we propose a user-friendly tool, namely GeoClouds Modcs, for evaluating distributed cloud computing systems deployed into multiple data centers considering disaster occurrence. The proposed environment adopts a hybrid heterogeneous modeling approach, which includes Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) and Cloud System High-Level models to perform the system evaluation. For specialized users, the tool also provides specific features that enable edit and evaluate the result SPN and RBD models on external evaluation tools (i.e., Mercury and TimeNET). To illustrate the proposed tool's usability, we present a case study that evaluates a cloud computing distributed in different cities considering diverse user loads.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819245
SysCon
Keywords
Field
DocType
petri nets,cloud computing,contracts,performance evaluation,stochastic processes,geoclouds modcs,iaas providers,rbd models,sla contracts,spn models,vm data,cloud system high-level models,cloud systems,data center subsystems,disaster occurrences,disaster tolerant iaas clouds,distributed cloud computing systems,evaluation tools,failure/recovery behavior,hybrid heterogeneous modeling,multiple data centers,natural disasters,perfomability evaluation tool,performability level,queuing behavior,redundant data centers,reliability block diagrams,specialized users,stochastic petri nets,system evaluation,user-friendly tool,iaas systems,performability evaluation tool,servers,availability,mathematical model,computational modeling,measurement
Reliability block diagram,Server,Usability,Stochastic Petri net,Natural disaster,Real-time computing,Queueing theory,Engineering,Data center,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1944-7620
4
0.43
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bruno Silva112416.86
Paulo Romero Martins Maciel236359.24
Brilhante, J.340.43
Armin Zimmermann429032.66