Title :
Assessing availability impact caused by switchover in database failover
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., California State Polytech. Univ., Pomona, CA
Abstract :
This paper assesses the availability impact caused by switchover time during database failover. This analysis is essential when switchover time is non-negligible and a stringent availability requirement is applied. How to assess the impact effectively for complex systems through independence assumptions and a hierarchical decomposition modeling approach will be addressed.
Keywords :
distributed databases; fault tolerant computing; system recovery; distributed database failover; fault-tolerant system; hierarchical decomposition modeling; switchover availability impact assessment; Availability; Computer crashes; Distributed databases; Fault tolerant systems; Memory; Network servers; Redundancy; Robustness; Terminology; Timing; Availability; database failover; modeling; switchover time;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2009. RAMS 2009. Annual
Conference_Location :
Fort Worth, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2508-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-144X
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.2009.4914710