Scalable virtual machine storage using local disks

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 71-79

  Hansen, Jacob Gorm ^a   Jul, Eric ^b  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Performance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SOFTWARES; BLACK BOXES; BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCE; COMMODITY HARDWARE; DATA CENTERS; DIRECT-ATTACHED STORAGES; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; PERFORMANCE; RUNNING-IN; STORAGE SOLUTIONS; STORAGE SYSTEMS; STREAM PROCESSING; VERSION CONTROL; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; LITHIUM; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78650750547     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899928.1899936     Document Type: Article

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