Performance evaluation of storage systems based on network-attached disks

abstract

• The emergence of network-attached disks provides the possibility of transfering data between the storage system and the client directly. This offers new possibilities in building a distributed storage system. In this paper, we examine different storage organizations based on network-attached disks and compare the performance of these systems to a traditional system. Trace-driven simulations are used to measure the average response times of the client requests in two different workloads. We show that the advantages of distributing the server's network processing load to disks can be offset by losses in cache hits in a system based on network-attached disks. The two workloads we considered highlight this impact. We show that it is possible to offload significant load from the server by utilizing network-attached disks and point out that specific applications may be able to better exploit the features of network-attached disks.

authors

• Reddy, Narasimha

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

author list (cited authors)

• Ma, G., Khaleel, A., & Reddy, A.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Ma, G||Khaleel, A||Reddy, ALN

publication date

• September 2000

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems  Journal

keywords

• Caching
• File Systems
• Network-attached Disks
• Performance Evaluation
• Response Time
• Storage Systems
• Web Servers

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/71.879778

start page

• 956

end page

• 968

volume

• 11

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/71.879778

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy