Amigo File System: CAS Based Storage Management for a Virtual Cluster System

Author

Xin, Jun ; Chen, Kang ; Zheng, Weimin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Universtiy Beijing, Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

368

Abstract

Virtual clusters are the new ways for managing the computing resources in the cluster environment. Users are presented with virtual clusters instead of physical ones. The storage system for supporting the running clusters is critical in such systems for efficient store of virtual machine images. We have used the CAS (Content Addressable Storage) based storage for manage the large number of virtual machine images in our VirtualCluster system. The block size is an important parameter for achieving the better storage efficiency and better delivery speed of local area network. Experiments show that in our VirtualCluster system, the best block size should be 128 KB. Amigo file system is the prototype implementation of virtual image storage in our VirtualCluster system.

Keywords

content-addressable storage; file organisation; local area networks; virtual machines; virtual storage; workstation clusters; Amigo file system; CAS based storage management; VirtualCluster system; content addressable storage; local area network; virtual machine images; Conference management; Content addressable storage; Environmental management; File systems; Image storage; Information technology; Operating systems; Resource management; Technology management; Virtual machining; Content Addressable Storage; File System; Virtual Cluster; Virtual Machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2009. CIT '09. Ninth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3836-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2009.110

Filename

5328081