Basil: Automated iO load balancing across storage devices

Proceedings of FAST 2010: 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-182

  Gulati, Ajay ^a   Kumar, Chethan ^a   Kumar, Karan ^b   Ahmad, Irfan ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; LIVE MIGRATIONS; MICRO-BENCHMARK; ON-LINE TOOLS; ONLINE MODELING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STORAGE ARRAYS;

VIRTUAL STORAGE;

EID: 85077039357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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