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Optimal Control of Storage Regeneration with Repair Codes

Francesco De Pellegrini·Rachid El Azouzi·Alonso Silva·and Olfa Hassani
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High availability of containerized applications requires to perform robust storage of applications' state. Since basic replication techniques are extremely costly at scale, storage space requirements can be reduced by means of erasure or repairing codes. In this paper we address storage regeneration using repair codes, a robust distributed storage technique with no need to fully restore the whole state in case of failure. In fact, only the lost servers' content is replaced. To do so, new cleanslate storage units are made operational at a cost for activating new storage servers and a cost for the transfer of repair data. Our goal is to guarantee maximal availability of containers' state files by a given deadline. activation of servers and communication cost. Upon a fault occurring at a subset of the storage servers, we aim at ensuring that they are repaired by a given deadline. We introduce a controlled fluid model and derive the optimal activation policy to replace servers under such correlated faults. The solution concept is the optimal control of regeneration via the Pontryagin minimum principle. We characterise feasibility conditions and we prove that the optimal policy is of threshold type. Numerical results describe how to apply the model for system dimensioning and show the tradeoff between

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Francesco De Pellegrini, Rachid El Azouzi, Alonso Silva, and Olfa Hassani. 2017-11-08. Optimal Control of Storage Regeneration with Repair Codes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03034

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