Risk-based model for availability estimation of SAF redundancy models
Glauco Estácio Gonçalves, Patrícia Takako Endo, Moisés Rodrigues, Judith Kelner, Djamel Fawzi Hadj Sadok, Calin Curescu · 2016
Cloud outages, no matter how long, are responsible for large financial losses. Cloud providers look for solutions that provide high availability even in failure cases. Redundancy has been often used as an alternative; however it has a cost, and depending on the redundancy model, we can have different levels of availability. Beyond that, adding more resources also means adding more complexity and more point of failures. In this paper, we propose a risk-based model for estimating the availability of a redundancy setup. In order to analyze our model, we conduct Monte Carlo simulations and results show that for all models, the number of applications we deploy in a Cloud environment impacts on its availability.