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Autonomous Management of Virtual Machine Failures in IaaS Using Fault Tree Analysis

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Cloud IaaS services bring the novelty of elastic delivery of computational resources in a virtualized form and resource management through easy replication of virtual nodes and live migration. In such dynamic and volatile environments where resources are virtualized, availability and reliability are mandatory for assuring an accepted quality of service for end users. In this context specific fault tolerance strategies are needed. Using concepts from fault tree analysis, we propose a distributed and autonomous approach where each virtualized node can assess and predict its own health state. In our setup each node can proactively take a decision about accepting future jobs, delegate jobs to own replicated instances or start a live migration process. We practically evaluate our model using real Xen log traces.

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This work was co-financed from the European Social Fund through Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013, project number POSDRU/159/1.5/S/134197 “Performance and excellence in doctoral and postdoctoral research in Romanian economics science domain”. G.C. Silaghi acknowledges support from UEFISCDI under project JustASR - PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1644.

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    Alexandru Butoi, Alexandru Stan & Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi

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Butoi, A., Stan, A., Silaghi, G.C. (2014). Autonomous Management of Virtual Machine Failures in IaaS Using Fault Tree Analysis. In: Altmann, J., Vanmechelen, K., Rana, O. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_14

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