Thanks! Do you think it is possible to link to the paper from http://wiki.opennebula.org? That way it will be easier to find. Maybe not a direct link to the PDF but some page where it can be downloaded/read.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Sándor Ács <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Community, > > let me share with you the "Block Level Storage Support for Open Source IaaS > Clouds" paper (published at PDP2013), that describes the AoE storage driver > (http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1648) and its evaluation. > > Abstract: > Cloud computing is the dominating paradigm in distributed computing. The > most popular open source cloud solutions support different type of storage > subsystems, because > of the different needs of the deployed services (in terms of performance, > flexibility, cost-effectiveness). In this paper, we investigate the > supported standard and open source storage > types and create a classification. We point out that the Internet Small > Computer System Interface (iSCSI) based block level storage can be used for > I/O intensive services currently. > However, the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol uses fewer layers and operates > on lower level which makes it more lightweight and faster than iSCSI. > Therefore, we proposed an architecture > for AoE based storage support in OpenNebula cloud. The novel storage > solution was implemented and the performance evaluation shows that the I/O > throughput of the AoE based > storage is better (32.5-61.5%) compared to the prior iSCSI based storage and > the new storage solution needs less CPU time (41.37%) to provide the same > services. > > Keywords-Cloud Computing; Storage Area Network; ATA-over-Ethernet; iSCSI; > > If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me! > > Best Regards, > Sandor Acs > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > -- Javier Fontán Muiños Project Engineer OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
