Understanding performance implications of nested file systems in a virtualized environment

Proceedings of FAST 2012: 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-99

  Le, Duy ^a   Huang, Hai ^b   Wang, Haining ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL STORAGE; VIRTUALIZATION;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE LAYERS; STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85077126913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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