ASCAR: Automating contention management for high-performance storage systems

Y Li, X Lu, EL Miller, DDE Long - 2015 31st Symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-performance parallel storage systems, such as those used by supercomputers and
data centers, can suffer from performance degradation when a large number of clients are …

Towards distributed storage resource management using flow control

A Gulati, I Ahmad - ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Deployment of shared storage systems is increasing with rapid adoption of virtualization
technologies to provide flexible sharing, isolation, better management and high utilization of …

Triage: Performance differentiation for storage systems using adaptive control

M Karlsson, C Karamanolis, X Zhu - ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2005 - dl.acm.org
Ensuring performance isolation and differentiation among workloads that share a storage
infrastructure is a basic requirement in consolidated data centers. Existing management …

Triage: Performance isolation and differentiation for storage systems

M Karlsson, C Karamanolis… - Twelfth IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring performance isolation and differentiation among workloads that share a storage
infrastructure is a basic requirement in consolidated data centers. Existing management …

Performance virtualization for large-scale storage systems

DD Chambliss, GA Alvarez, P Pandey… - 22nd International …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current data centers require storage capacities of hundreds of terabytes to petabytes. Time-
critical applications such as online transactions processing depend on getting adequate …

Zygaria: Storage performance as a managed resource

TM Wong, RA Golding, C Lin… - 12th IEEE Real-Time …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale storage systems often hold data for multiple applications and users. A problem
in such systems is isolating applications and users from each other to prevent their …

[PDF][PDF] Performance boosting and workload isolation in storage area networks with SANCache

I Ari, M Gottwals, D Henze - Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE/14th NASA …, 2006 - Citeseer
Consolidation of server and storage resources in data centers results in interference of
workloads with different characteristics and different performance requirements. It is difficult …

{Façade}: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees

CR Lumb - 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage …, 2003 - usenix.org
High-end storage systems, such as those in large data centers, must service multiple
independent workloads. Workloads often require predictable quality of service, despite the …

Centaur: Host-side ssd caching for storage performance control

R Koller, AJ Mashtizadeh… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Host-side SSD caches represent a powerful knob for improving and controlling storage
performance and improve performance isolation. We present Centaur, as a host-side SSD …

FAIRIO: an algorithm for differentiated I/O performance

S Arunagiri, Y Kwok, PJ Teller… - 2011 23rd …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing differentiated service in a consolidated storage environment is a challenging task.
To address this problem, we introduce FAIRIO, a cycle-based I/O scheduling algorithm that …