Network Failures in Cloud Management Platforms: A Study on OpenStack

Hassan Khan, Frederico Cerveira, Tiago Cruz, Henrique Madeira

2023

Abstract

Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) have a critical role in supporting private and public cloud computing as a tool to manage, provision and track resources and their usage. These platforms, like cloud computing, tend to be complex distributed systems spread across multiple nodes, thus network faults are a threat that can lead to failures to provide the expected service. This paper studies how network faults occurring in the links between the nodes of the CMP can propagate and affect the applications that are hosted on the virtual machines (VMs). We used fault injection to emulate various types of network faults in two links of the OpenStack CMP while a common cloud computing workload was being executed. The results show that not all network links have the same importance and that network faults can propagate and cause the performance of applications to degrade up to 50% and a small percentage of their operations to fail. Furthermore, in many campaigns some of the responses returned by the applications did not match the expected values.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khan H., Cerveira F., Cruz T. and Madeira H. (2023). Network Failures in Cloud Management Platforms: A Study on OpenStack. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-650-7, SciTePress, pages 228-235. DOI: 10.5220/0011851400003488

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer23,
author={Hassan Khan and Frederico Cerveira and Tiago Cruz and Henrique Madeira},
title={Network Failures in Cloud Management Platforms: A Study on OpenStack},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2023},
pages={228-235},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011851400003488},
isbn={978-989-758-650-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Network Failures in Cloud Management Platforms: A Study on OpenStack
SN - 978-989-758-650-7
AU - Khan H.
AU - Cerveira F.
AU - Cruz T.
AU - Madeira H.
PY - 2023
SP - 228
EP - 235
DO - 10.5220/0011851400003488
PB - SciTePress