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Creator:

Carpen-Amarie, Alexandra ; Costan, Alexandru ; Cai, Jing ; Antoniu, Gabriel ; Boug'e, Luc

Contributor:

Korbicz, Józef - red. ; Uciński, Dariusz - red.

Title:

Bringing introspection into BlobSeer: towards a self-adaptive distributed data management system

Group publication title:

AMCS, Volume 21 (2011)

Subject and Keywords:

distributed systems ; storage management ; large-scale system ; monitoring ; introspection

Abstract:

Introspection is the prerequisite of autonomic behavior, the first step towards performance improvement and resource usage optimization for large-scale distributed systems. In grid environments, the task of observing the application behavior is assigned to monitoring systems. However, most of them are designed to provide general resource information and do not consider specific information for higher-level services. More precisely, in the context of data-intensive applications, a specific introspection layer is required to collect data about the usage of storage resources, data access patterns, etc ; This paper discusses the requirements for an introspection layer in a data management system for large-scale distributed infrastructures. We focus on the case of BlobSeer, a large-scale distributed system for storing massive data. The paper explains why and how to enhance BlobSeer with introspective capabilities and proposes a three-layered architecture relying on the MonALISA monitoring framework. ; We illustrate the autonomic behavior of BlobSeer with a self-configuration component aiming to provide storage elasticity by dynamically scaling the number of data providers. Then we propose a preliminary approach for enabling self-protection for the BlobSeer system, through a malicious client detection component. The introspective architecture has been evaluated on the Grid?5000 testbed, with experiments that prove the feasibility of generating relevant information related to the state and behavior of the system.

Publisher:

Zielona Góra: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski

Date:

2011

Resource Type:

artykuł

DOI:

10.2478/v10006-011-0017-y

Pages:

229-242

Source:

AMCS, Volume 21, Number 2 (2011) ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego