NAS switch: a novel CIFS server virtualization

Author

Katsurashima, Wataru ; Yamakawa, Satoshi ; Torii, Takashi ; Ishikawa, Jun ; Kikuchi, Yoshihide ; Yamaguti, Kouji ; Fujii, Kazuaki ; Nakashima, Toshihiro

Author_Institution

Internet Syst. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 April 2003

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

86

Abstract

This paper proposes a common Internet file system (CIFS) server virtualization method which requires no proprietary software or hardware for clients or network attached storage (NAS) units. The method is implemented as an in-band network application between clients and NAS units, and it provides users and administrators with a single virtual NAS system that incorporates all their units. Since almost all name resolution operations are performed by individual NAS units independently, use of this method imposes only a very light computational load and creates little latency.

Keywords

client-server systems; data visualisation; protocols; storage management; CIFS protocol; common Internet file system; distributed file system; file server; in-band virtualization; network attached storage; network file system; Application software; Delay; File servers; File systems; Hardware; IP networks; National electric code; Platform virtualization; Protocols; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 2003. (MSST 2003). Proceedings. 20th IEEE/11th NASA Goddard Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1914-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.2003.1194841

Filename

1194841