Parallax: Virtual disks for virtual machines

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 41-54

  Meyer, Dutch T ^a   Aggarwal, Gitika ^a   Cully, Brendan ^a   Lefebvre, Geoffrey ^a   Feeley, Michael J ^a   Hutchinson, Norman C ^a   Warfield, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b XenSource Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Network storage; Snapshot; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM; NETWORK STORAGE; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; STORAGE ARRAYS; STORAGE FACILITIES; TEMPLATE IMAGES; VIRTUAL DISK; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 77952150450     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357010.1352598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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