Integration of objects and blocks storage to deploy secure virtual machine with high availability

Abstract

Cloud computing offers people access to information and applications from newlineany access point to the web and gives the business an entirely different approach to newlinecut expenses for specialized technical hardware and a mammoth market of hardware newlineand services to huge strong computer organizations. More and more enterprises are newlineshifting their businesses on the cloud. However, end users cannot rely completely on newlinethe cloud as system failure and downtime do occur. These failure and downtime newlineleads to huge loss of revenue both to cloud service providers and the organization newlineconsuming these services. newlineOne of the common causes of failure is bugs in protocols for object and newlineblock storage. Object storage and block storage are two types of storage protocols newlineprovided by the cloud. Applications use either block storage or object storage newlinedepending upon the requirements. The object storage protocol iSCSI is subjected to newline60 open bugs, similarly, block storage protocol is subjected to 161 open bug and newlinenew bugs are created each day. These bugs lead to system failure and inflict newlinedowntime. newlineIn this research, a protocol for object and block integration is proposed to newlineincrease availability in cloud computing. According to the proposed protocol the newlineinformation stored on the cloud is stored in instances of both object storage and newlineblock storage. So that if one protocol fails due to bug the system can be quickly newlineshifted to another protocol. newlineThe proposed protocol was simulated in the laboratory and results affirm that newlinethe protocol provides higher availability even with the increasing number of nodes. newlineThe proposed protocol can be used in cloud computing to provide higher availability newlineby utilizing the already present resources in a more efficient manner. newline newline newline