Management issues in storage area networks: Detection and isolation of performance problems

IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 453-466

  Kochut, A ^a   Bobroff, N ^b   Beaty, K ^b   Kar, G ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance management; Problem determination; Storage area networks

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; PROBLEM DETERMINATION; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 4544229609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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