Improving disk I/O performance in a virtualized system

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-200

  Li, Dingding ^a   Jin, Hai ^a   Liao, Xiaofei ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhou, Bingbing ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disk I O; Virtual desktop; Virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUALIZATION;

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION; DISK I/O; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; VIRTUAL DESKTOPS; VIRTUAL MACHINE TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUALIZED SYSTEMS; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84870292362     PISSN: 00220000     EISSN: 10902724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcss.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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