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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...