Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
Support for automatic diagnosis and dynamic configuration of scalable storage systems |
Abstract | ||
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Distributed storage systems are expected to serve a broad spectrum of applications, satisfying various requirements with respect to capacity, speed, reliability, security at low cost. Virtualization techniques allow flexible configuration of storage systems in order to meet resource constraints and application requirements. Violin provides block level virtualization that enables the extension of storage with new mechanisms and combining them to create modular hierarchies. Creating and maintaining such virtualization hierarchies however, is a complex task where a human system administrator is the most expensive and less efficient element. We introduced Conductor, an automated support system that tries to grasp human expertise with declarative rules that are applied to storage management. So far the initial, static configuration capabilities of Conductor have been elaborated. Static features however, are not sufficient for practical purposes as the storage system evolves, i.e. requirements, workloads, access patterns may change in time. This paper presents work in progress that is aimed at extending Conductor with supporting dynamic features. We introduce the concepts of global and directed reconfigurations and discuss their potential strengths and weaknesses. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2006 | 10.1007/978-3-540-72337-0_3 | Euro-Par Workshops |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
automatic diagnosis,scalable storage system,storage system,dynamic configuration,automated support system,static configuration capability,static feature,human system administrator,block level virtualization,storage system evolves,human expertise,storage management,flexible configuration,rule based system,virtualization,distributed storage,work in progress,satisfiability,spectrum | Storage virtualization,Virtualization,Converged storage,EMC Invista,Work in process,Computer science,Computer data storage,Parallel computing,Information repository,Distributed computing,Scalability | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
4375 | 0302-9743 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 4 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zsolt Németh | 1 | 182 | 20.47 |
| Michail D. Flouris | 2 | 131 | 9.38 |
| Renaud Lachaize | 3 | 220 | 10.57 |
| Angelos Bilas | 4 | 598 | 60.49 |