Dynamic tunnel switching using network functions visualization for HA system failover

High Availability (HA) is an ability of the system to operate continuously in desired amount of time. Telephony system, for example, should operate 99.999%, that means the system should have only 5.26 maximum downtime for a year. Provide high available IP based service such as Voice over IP for telephony is difficult since IP is not designed for reliable connection. A lot of research has been conducted to overcome these drawbacks. This paper works by enhancing the failover mechanism of Remus as a high availability solution using server virtualization. This paper proposed network function virtualization in order to create a dynamic tunnel switching between primary and secondary server to the clients gateway. The result shows the jitter level and downtime of modified failover using dynamic tunnel switching did not make the jitter or amount of downtime higher. The server downtime using dynamic tunnel switching were varied between 1.3–1.5 second that is still comparable with basic Remus downtime with gratuitous ARP means the proposed idea using network function virtualization works well. This paper extends the ability of failover to adapt the wide area condition.