Benchmarking automated hardware management technologies for modern data centers and cloud environments

Elham Hojati, Yong Chen, Alan Sill

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Abstract

Traditional management standards are often insufficient to manage modern data centers at large scale, which motivates the community to propose and develop new management standards. The most popular traditional standard for monitoring and controlling the health and functionality of a system at hardware layer is Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Redfish is a new hardware-based management technology designed as the next-generation management standard. The goal of this study is to investigate hardware management technologies and to find out if they are powerful enough to meet demands of modern data centers. Particularly, we focused on Redfish and IPMI, and we benchmarked and compared them from four different aspects: latency, scalability, reliability, and security. Our result shows that there is a trade-off between improving the performance of a system and increasing the security and the reliability of that. Our results show that Redfish is more secure and more reliable, but the performance of IPMI tends to be better.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages193-194
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450351492
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 5 2017
Event10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2017 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 5 2017Dec 8 2017

Publication series

NameUCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

Conference

Conference10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period12/5/1712/8/17

Keywords

  • Benchmarking
  • Cloud environments
  • Data centers
  • IPMI
  • Redfish

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