Failure Rules Based Node Resource Provision Policy for Cloud Computing

As a novel computing paradigm, e.g., cloud computing, become popular, researchers proposed various resource sharing techniques and resource provision techniques. However, very limited literatures pay attentions to the reliability of dynamically provided resources. In this paper, we propose a failure rules aware node resource provision policy for heterogeneous services consolidated in cloud computing infrastructure. We evaluate our proposed policy with simulation approach, i.e., implement a simulator of heterogeneous service consolidation platform, which take characteristics of heterogeneous services (both characteristics of resource utility and failure rules), into consideration, and use two production traces to synthesize inputs. The results of evaluation indicate that our proposed resource provision policy is effective for providing robust nodes for heterogeneous services, i.e., our policy can mask more potential node reboot failures from services and leave less chances of unplanned failures, e.g., service failure or node reboot, compared with baseline fault re-provided policy. Meanwhile, our policy involves no negative impact on service performance and no negative impact on node´s resource utility, compared with baseline policy.