NDLI: Checkpoint-based fault-tolerant infrastructure for virtualized service providers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Goiri, I. Julià, F. Guitart, J. Torres, J.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Technical University of Catalonia, Jordi Girona 31, 08034, Spain (Goiri, I.; Julià, F.; Guitart, J.; Torres, J.)
Abstract	Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the number of nodes. Apart from reducing the provider's computation power and jeopardizing the fulfillment of his contracts, this can also lead to computation time wasting when the crash occurs before finishing the task execution. In order to avoid this problem, efficient checkpoint infrastructures are required, especially in virtualized environments where these infrastructures must deal with huge virtual machine images. This paper proposes a smart checkpoint infrastructure for virtualized service providers. It uses Another Union File System to differentiate read-only from read-write parts in the virtual machine image. In this way, read-only parts can be checkpointed only once, while the rest of checkpoints must only save the modifications in read-write parts, thus reducing the time needed to make a checkpoint. The checkpoints are stored in a Hadoop Distributed File System. This allows resuming a task execution faster after a node crash and increasing the fault tolerance of the system, since checkpoints are distributed and replicated in all the nodes of the provider. This paper presents a running implementation of this infrastructure and its evaluation, demonstrating that it is an effective way to make faster checkpoints with low interference on task execution and efficient task recovery after a node failure.
Starting Page	455
Ending Page	462
File Size	379449
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424453665
ISSN	15421201
e-ISBN	9781424453672
DOI	10.1109/NOMS.2010.5488493
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-19
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fault tolerance Computer crashes Virtual machining File systems Contracts Lead time reduction Finishing Interference Quality of service Image restoration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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