Performance evaluation of commodity iSCSI-based storage systems

Proceedings - Twenty -second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 261-269

  Xinidis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Bilas, Angelos ^a,c   Flouris, Michail D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I/O LATENCY; ISCSI-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS; STORAGE NETWORKS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE;

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; BUFFER STORAGE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SERVERS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 27144448448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSST.2005.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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