Title :
Scalable, high performance InfiniBand-attached SAN Volume Controller
Author :
Guthridge, D. Scott
Author_Institution :
Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
fDate :
Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 1 2008
Abstract :
We have developed a highly reliable InfiniBand host attached block storage management and virtualization system that supports several off-the-shelf Fibre Channel RAID controllers on the back end. The system is based on the existing IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) product, and therefore offers performance, a wide array of storage virtualization features, and support for many existing storage controllers. We provide an overview of the driver design as well as performance results. Large read performance from SVC cache exceeds 3 GB/s in a minimal two-node cluster configuration.
Keywords :
RAID; storage area networks; storage management; IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller; SAN volume controller; block storage management; fibre channel RAID controller; reliable InfiniBand host; scalable high performance InfiniBand; storage virtualization; virtualization system; Cache storage; Centralized control; Control systems; Fabrics; Quality of service; Resource management; Static VAr compensators; Storage area networks; Supercomputers; Uninterruptible power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2639-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1552-5244
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTR.2008.4663807
