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Abstract | ||
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Enterprise-class server appliances such as network-attached storage systems or network routers can benefit greatly from virtualization technologies. However, current inter-VM communication techniques have significant performance overheads when employed between highly-collaborative appliance components, thereby limiting the use of virtualization in such systems. We present Fido, an inter-VM communication mechanism that leverages the inherent relaxed trust model between the software components in an appliance to achieve high performance. We have also developed common device abstractions - a network device (MMNet) and a block device (MMBlk) on top of Fido. We evaluate MMNet and MMBlk using microbench-marks and find that they outperform existing alternative mechanisms. As a case study, we have implemented a virtualized architecture for a network-attached storage system incorporating Fido, MMNet, and MMBlk. We use both microbenchmarks and TPC-C to evaluate our virtualized storage system architecture. In comparison to a monolithic architecture, the virtualized one exhibits nearly no performance penalty in our benchmarks, thus demonstrating the viability of virtualized enterprise server architectures that use Fido. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2009 | USENIX Annual Technical Conference | virtualized architecture,block device,network device,performance penalty,network-attached storage system,enterprise appliance,virtualized storage system architecture,high performance,common device abstraction,monolithic architecture,virtualized enterprise server architecture,inter-virtual-machine communication |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Virtualization,Storage virtualization,Virtual machine,Computer science,Computer data storage,Networking hardware,Device file,Real-time computing,Systems architecture,Component-based software engineering,Operating system,Embedded system | Conference | 34 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
1.62 | 13 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anton Burtsev | 1 | 59 | 6.46 |
| Kiran Srinivasan | 2 | 229 | 9.88 |
| Prashanth Radhakrishnan | 3 | 48 | 2.41 |
| Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram | 4 | 509 | 27.47 |
| Kaladhar Voruganti | 5 | 497 | 42.73 |
| Garth R. Goodson | 6 | 679 | 43.14 |