A Comprehensive Sensitivity Analysis of a Data Center Network with Server Virtualization for Business Continuity

Table 2

Parameter default values used in the analyses.

Parameters	Description	Assigned transitions	Mean time/values
	Host failure rate	, , , , , , , , , , , and	800 hours
	Host repair rate	, , , , , , , , , , , and	9.8 hours
	VM failure rate	, , , , , , , , , , , and	4 months
	VM repair rate	, , , , , , , , , , , and	30 mins
	Switch failure rate	, , and	1 year
	Switch repair rate	, , and	24 hours
	Network bandwidth within a DCell0	, , , , ,; , , , , ,; , , , , ,; , , , , ,; , , , , , and	1 Gb/s
	Network bandwidth between two DCell0s	, , , , , , , , , , , and	256 Mb/s
	Memory size of a VM		10 GB
, ,	Number of VMs running on respective hosts H00, H01, and H02		1
, , , , , , , ,	Number of VMs running on respective hosts H10, H11, H12, H20, H21, H22, H30, H31, and H32		0