ASTRO: A tool for dependability evaluation of Data Center infrastructures

Author

Silva, B. ; Maciel, P. ; Tavares, E. ; Araujo, C. ; Callou, Gustavo ; Sousa, E. ; Rosa, N. ; Marwah, M. ; Sharma, R. ; Shah, A. ; Christian, T. ; Pires, J.P.

Author_Institution

Center for Inf. (CIn), Fed. Univ. of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

783

Lastpage

790

Abstract

The advent of cloud computing has demanded more computational resources from data centers in order to provide high-availability services required in this new paradigm. To support data center dependability evaluation, this paper presents a tool, namely, ASTRO, which adopts a hybrid modeling approach, that includes Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) and Data Center High-Level models. In addition, this tool also provides a prominent functionality in which an evaluation result can be reused in other models. ASTRO Tool also permits a hierarchical modeling, supporting the piecewise approach proposed by the methodology in which the tool is inserted.

Keywords

Internet; Petri nets; computer centres; power engineering computing; software reliability; software tools; stochastic processes; ASTRO tool; RBD; SPN; cloud computing; computational resources; data center dependability evaluation; data center high-level models; data center infrastructures; high-availability services; hybrid modeling approach; piecewise approach; reliability block diagrams; stochastic Petri nets; Data Center evaluation; Reliability Block Diagrams; Stochastic Petri Nets; dependability evaluation tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6586-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641852

Filename

5641852