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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Container Based Consistent Cluster Checkpoint
Checkpoint can store and recovery applications when faults happen and is becoming critical to large information systems. Unfortunately, existing checkpoint tools have some limitations such as: not transparent ...
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Article
Distributed Storage Cluster Design for Remote Mirroring Based on Storage Area Network
With the explosion of information nowadays, applying data storage safety requirements has become a new challenge, especially in high data available cluster environments. With the emergence of Storage Area Netw...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of an Out-of-Band Virtualization System on Solaris 10
In out-of-band virtualization systems, it is typical that the virtual storage manager (VSM) maintains the metadata for all Agents and performs the address map**. The Agent performs I/O access according to th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of an Efficient Multipath for a SAN Environment
Multipath provides multiple paths between application Servers and storage devices. Multipath can overcome single point of failure, and improve a system’s reliability and availability. This paper presents a mul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of a New Cache and Schedule Scheme for Distributed VOD Servers
A VOD server’s caching and scheduling performance determine its service performance efficiency. This paper describes a new cache model and content replacement strategy, based on the Zipf-like Law and the chara...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of a Non-volatile RAM Disk in the SAN Environment
The mechanical nature of the magnetic disks limits the possibility of significant improvement of the I/O performance of the magnetic disk storage systems currently in use. The use of magnetic disk storage syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Storage Virtualization System with Load Balancing for SAN
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) has been a key subsystem for online disk storage management. Additional layer is created in the kernel to present a logical view of physical storage devices. Many transparent funct...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Implementation of Semi-synchronous Remote Mirroring System for SANs
Remote mirroring is often used as part of disaster recovery solutions. Synchronous remote mirroring incurs steep costs in both write latency and network bandwidth to support the mirroring, while asynchronous m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Optimization of an iSCSI System
Data storage plays a critical role in today’s fast-growing data-intensive network services. iSCSI is a new standard that allows SCSI protocols to be carried out over IP networks. This paper introduces a softwa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Virtual Tape System Based on Storage Area Networks
The access speed of tape has become one of the main bottlenecks in backup work, because tape backup systems are used quite widely. This paper describes the design and implementation of a Virtual Tape System (V...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data I/O Optimization in Storage Systems
One of the most effective ways to improve the I/O performance of a storage system is to enhance the hard disk’s read/write ability. We used an I/O processing node in the storage network to optimize data organi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Implementation of Storage-Based Synchronous Remote Mirroring for SANs
Remote mirroring ensures that all data written to a primary storage device are also written to a remote secondary storage device to support disaster recoverability. In this study, we designed and implemented a...
