Improving I/O performance using virtual disk introspection

5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tarasov, Vasily ^a   Jain, Deepak ^a   Hildebrand, Dean ^b   Tewari, Renu ^b   Kuenning, Geoff ^c   Zadok, Erez ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE ORGANIZATION; SEMANTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

EXPENSIVE HARDWARE; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; POSITION PAPERS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SERVER VIRTUALIZATION; STORAGE ARRAYS; VIRTUAL DISK; WRITE OPERATIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 85084160014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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