A Fault Injection Platform for Availability Evaluation of IA64 System

Abstract:

Availability is one of the key features for transaction processing systems. Fault injection is one of the important techniques to hasten availability tests. A fault injection platform is designed in this paper for IA64 system which is being widely used in transaction processing business. The fault injection platform is implemented using client/server mode and a series of fault injection tools are accomplished which covers CPU faults, memory faults, disk faults, IO faults, file system faults and system call boundary errors. A group of experiments on a typical IA64 server are described and performed, and the experiment results validate the effectiveness of the fault injection platform.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 58-60)
• Pages: 535-540
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.58-60.535
• Online since: June 2011
• Authors: Yi Feng, Zhan Zhang, Jun Qian, De Cheng Zuo, Xiao Zong Yang
• Keywords: Availability, Fault Injection, IA64

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