Availability and Maintainability Benchmarks A Case Study of Software RAID Systems

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Table of Contents

Availability and Maintainability Benchmarks A Case Study of Software RAID Systems

Overview

Overview

Part I

Outline: Availability Benchmarks

Why benchmark availability?

Step 1: Availability metrics

Step 2: Measurement techniques

Step 3: Reporting results

Case study

Benchmark environment

Benchmark environment: faults

Single-fault experiments

Multiple-fault experiments

Comparison of systems

Transient error handling

Transient error handling (2)

Reconstruction policy

Reconstruction policy: graphical view

Reconstruction policy (2)

Double-fault handling

Availability Conclusions: Case study

Conclusions: Availability benchmarks

Availability: Future opportunities

Part II

Outline: Maintainability Benchmarks

Motivation

Metrics & Approach

Methodology

1) Build a task taxonomy

1) Build a task taxonomy

2) Measure a task’s cost

3) Measure task frequencies

4) Apply a cost function

Case Study

Experimental platform

Experimental procedure

Experimental procedure (2)

Experimental procedure (3)

Sample results: time

Analysis of time results

Sample results: learning curve

Discussion

Discussion (2)

Early reactions

Future Directions: Maintainability

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Approaching availability benchmarks

Example Quality of Service metrics

System configuration

Single-fault results

Behavior A: no effect

Behavior B: lost redundancy

Behavior C: automatic reconstruction

Behavior D: system failure

System comparison: single-fault

Example multiple-fault result

Multi-fault results

Multi-fault results (2)

Author: Aaron Brown, Eric Anderson, and David A. Patterson

Email: abrown@cs.berkeley.edu

Home Page: http://istore.cs.berkeley.edu/

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