A model of storage I/O performance interference in virtualized systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 34-39

  Casale, Giuliano ^a   Kraft, Stephan ^b,d   Krishnamurthy, Diwakar ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Performance modeling; Storage; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

I/O PERFORMANCE; LINEAR PREDICTION MODELS; MEASUREMENT-BASED APPROACH; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERFORMANCE MODELING; READ/WRITE PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052402570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2011.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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