TY - GEN
T1 - Benchmarking automated hardware management technologies for modern data centers and cloud environments
AU - Hojati, Elham
AU - Chen, Yong
AU - Sill, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/12/5
Y1 - 2017/12/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Cloud environments
KW - Data centers
KW - IPMI
KW - Redfish
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056907471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3147213.3149212
DO - 10.1145/3147213.3149212
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056907471
T3 - UCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
SP - 193
EP - 194
BT - UCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2017
Y2 - 5 December 2017 through 8 December 2017
ER -