Easy and efficient disk I/O workload characterization in VMware ESX server

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-158

  Ahmad, Irfan ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ACTIVE QUEUE; BLOCK SIZES; DISK I/O; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; HYPERVISOR; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; ONLINE COLLECTION; OPERATING SYSTEMS; RUNNING IN; SOLARIS (CO); SPATIAL LOCALITY; SUBSYSTEM PERFORMANCE; TRACING FRAMEWORK; VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM); WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 47349094932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2007.4362191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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