Disaster recovery framework for e-learning environment using private cloud collaboration and emergency alerts

Abstract

In this research, we have built a framework of disaster recovery such as against earthquake, tsunami disaster and a heavy floods for e-Learning environment. Especially, our proposed framework is based on private cloud collaboration. We build a prototype system based on IaaS architecture, and this prototype system is constructed by several private cloud fabrics on each site such as several universities. These private cloud fabric; that is handled almost like same block device. For LMS (Learning Management System) to work, we need to boot up virtual machines which installed LMS. The virtual disk images of each virtual machines are stored into the distributed storage system. The distributed storage system will be able to keep running as a large block device. We can control the virtual machine’s status and virtual machines positioning on the private cloud fabrics by the private cloud collaboration controller related with the emergency alert via smart phone. We think that our private cloud collaboration framework can continue working for e-Learning environment under the post-disaster situation. In this paper, we show our private cloud collaboration framework. And, we show the experimental results on the prototype system.