Analysis of the Influence Factors to Remote Replication System

Author

Liu, Xiaoguang ; Wang, Gang ; Ma, Liang ; Zhen, Caijun ; Cao, Rui

Author_Institution

Nankai-Baidu Joint Lab., Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Remote replication, also called remote mirror, is the key technology for data disaster tolerance. Compared with researchers, administrators of data center prefer to pay more attention to the influence factors of performance rather than how to implement remote replication and the technical details. In this paper, the influence factors to remote replication system are analyzed using a LVM-based remote replication system platform, named ELVM. ELVM is embedded into the LVM module of Linux. It uses NBD as data communication protocol. Experimental results and regression equations show that network QoS, which includes delay time, packet loss rate and packet corruption rate, takes much more influence on the system performance than user´s access mode. It implies improving network QoS is more important to remote replication system.

Keywords

computer centres; quality of service; storage management; ELVM; LVM module; NBD; data center; data communication protocol; data disaster tolerance; delay time; influence factors; logical volume manager; network QoS; packet corruption rate; packet loss rate; regression equations; remote mirror; remote replication system; Access protocols; Data communication; Delay effects; Equations; Hardware; Linux; Mirrors; System performance; System software; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Information Technology (FutureTech), 2010 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6948-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUTURETECH.2010.5482769

Filename

5482769