TY  - BOOK
AB  - The advances in network technology and the growth of
the Internet together with upcoming new applications like
peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have led to an exponential
growth of the stored data volume. The key to manage this
data explosion seems to be the consolidation of storage systems
inside storage area networks (SANs) and the use of a
storage virtualization solution that is able to abstract from
the underlying physical storage system.
In this paper we present the first measurements on an
out-of-band storage virtualization system and investigate
its performance and scalability compared to a plain SAN.
We show in general that a carefully designed out-of-band
solution has only a very minor impact on the CPU usage
in the connected servers and that the metadata management
can be efficiently handled. Furthermore we show that
the use of an adaptive data placement scheme in our virtualization
solution V:Drive can significantly enhance the
throughput of the storage systems, especially in environments
with random access schemes.
DA  - 2004
LA  - eng
PY  - 2004
TI  - V:Drive – Costs and Benefits of an Out-of-Band Storage Virtualization System
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-22887141
Y2  - 2024-11-21T17:18:44
ER  -