A High Availability Management Model based on VM Significance Ranking and Resource Estimation for Cloud Applications

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel high availability management model for cloud applications that prioritizes critical VMs using significance ranking and resource estimation to optimize costs and improve service availability.

Contribution

The proposed SRE-HM model uniquely combines VM significance ranking with resource estimation to selectively apply high availability strategies, reducing costs and enhancing reliability.

Findings

Improved service availability by up to 19.56%.

Reduced active servers and power consumption by approximately 26.67% and 19.1%.

Validated effectiveness using Google Cluster dataset.

Abstract

Massive upsurge in cloud resource usage stave off service availability resulting into outages, resource contention, and excessive power-consumption. The existing approaches have addressed this challenge by providing multi-cloud, VM migration, and running multiple replicas of each VM which accounts for high expenses of cloud data centre (CDC). In this context, a novel VM Significance Ranking and Resource Estimation based High Availability Management (SRE-HM) Model is proposed to enhance service availability for users with optimized cost for CDC. The model estimates resource contention based server failure and organises needed resources beforehand for maintaining desired level of service availability. A significance ranking parameter is introduced and computed for each VM, executing critical or non-critical tasks followed by the selection of an admissible High Availability (HA) strategy respective to its significance and user specified constraints. It enables cost optimization for CDC by rendering failure tolerance strategies for significant VMs only instead of all the VMs. The proposed model is evaluated and compared against state-of-the-arts by executing experiments using Google Cluster dataset. SRE-HM improved the services availability up to 19.56% and scales down the number of active servers and power-consumption up to 26.67% and 19.1%, respectively over HA without SRE-HM.