Enabling continued operation of IT services and infrastructures during floods and other disasters

在洪水和其他灾难期间实现 IT 服务和基础设施的持续运行

• 批准号: 1240171
• 负责人: Andrea Matsunaga
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240171&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enabling; continued; operation; services; infrastructures

Proposal #: CNS 12-40171PI(s): Matsunaga, Andrea Fortes, Jose A.Institution: University of FloridaTitle: Rapid: Enabling Continued Operation of IT Services & Infrastructures during Floods & Other DisastersProject Proposed:Thi RAPID project, studying the effectiveness of virtualized Internet data centers on improving IT service continuity during and after a disaster through virtual machines (VM) live migration and backup/checkpointing, conducts research on the use of virtualization technologies. These technologies enable mitigating and recovering from the impact of catastrophic events on IT infrastructures and the services they deliver. Working with Thammasat University in Thailand, Internet Data Centers (IDCs) will be leveraged as disaster recovering sites, where government and corporate data can be backed up and operational servers can be temporarily located in order to provide high-availability and resiliency for the organizations? operations and services.The recent catastrophic events in the 2011 Thailand flood raised a many issues in the disruption of operation and services provided by various organizations that can contribute in handling other future catastrophic events. Several research questions have arisen: The- Need to assess existing infrastructures since suitable solutions have dependencies on the type of disasters and the realities of the IT environments in the disaster locations, and - Need to address challenges when migrating VMs across geographic locations, given that existing VM migration technology have been developed with local area network assumptions that do not hold true in disaster recovery scenarios.Thus, the work leverages existing infrastructure and experience in machine visualization technologies and cloud computing deployments to conduct realistic experiments, to assess the effectiveness of mechanisms offered by existing visualization technologies to maximize the availability of services and minimize costs to maintain and/or recover all the services during and after disaster. Research efforts will be developed in the following thrusts:- Collection and analysis of data related damaged IT services due to the 2011 Thailand Flood;- Studies of the nature of the IT services and their infrastructure design;- Studies of the practicality and scalability of VM live migration and backup/checkpointing in wide-area setting; and- Investigation of virtualized-based resilient middleware architectures for service continuity.Broader Impacts: This project will advance our understanding of how to provide robust middleware for protection and recovery of IT infrastructure that performs well for different types of disasters. It will also inform policy-makers and IT managers in Thailand and the USA on how to evaluate and integrate emerging commercial virtualization solutions for backup and/or recovery-oriented computing systems under the extreme conditions found during and after a disaster. The research supports a female minority PI and a US graduate student. The project has been submitted for co-funding from the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), which, if successful, would represent a precedent-setting partnership between the NSF and TRF which could be a model for future collaboration.

提案编号：CNS 12- 40171 PI（s）：Matsunaga，Andrea Fortes，Jose A.机构：佛罗里达大学标题：Rapid：Enabling Continuous Operation of IT Services&在洪水和其他灾害期间的可持续运营网络&结构拟议项目：此RAPID项目研究虚拟化互联网数据中心在灾难期间和之后通过虚拟机（VM）实时迁移和备份/检查点提高IT服务连续性的有效性，对虚拟化技术的使用进行研究。这些技术可以减轻灾难性事件对IT基础架构及其提供的服务的影响并从中恢复。与泰国法政大学合作，互联网数据中心（IDC）将被用作灾难恢复站点，政府和企业数据可以备份，运营服务器可以临时放置，以便为组织提供高可用性和弹性？2011年泰国洪水中最近发生的灾难性事件引发了许多问题，导致各种组织的运营和服务中断，这些组织可以帮助处理未来的其他灾难性事件。出现了几个研究问题：- 需要评估现有基础架构，因为合适的解决方案依赖于灾难类型和灾难地点的IT环境现实，以及-需要解决跨地理位置迁移虚拟机时的挑战，因为现有虚拟机迁移技术是在局域网假设的情况下开发的，而这些假设在灾难恢复场景中并不适用。这项工作利用现有的基础设施和经验，在机器可视化技术和云计算部署进行现实的实验，以评估现有的可视化技术提供的机制的有效性，以最大限度地提高服务的可用性，并尽量减少成本，以维持和/或恢复所有服务期间和之后的灾难。研究工作将在以下方面展开：-收集和分析与2011年泰国洪水造成的受损IT服务相关的数据;-研究IT服务的性质及其基础设施设计;-研究虚拟机实时迁移和广域设置中的备份/检查点的实用性和可扩展性;以及-调查基于虚拟化的弹性中间件架构，以实现服务连续性。这个项目将促进我们对如何提供强大的中间件的理解，为保护和恢复的IT基础设施，表现良好的不同类型的灾难。它还将告知泰国和美国的决策者和IT经理如何在灾难期间和之后的极端条件下评估和集成新兴的商业虚拟化解决方案，用于备份和/或面向恢复的计算系统。该研究支持一名女性少数民族PI和一名美国研究生。该项目已提交泰国研究基金共同供资，如果成功，将成为国家科学基金会和泰国研究基金会之间建立伙伴关系的先例，可成为未来合作的典范。