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Storage QoS Aspects in Distributed Virtualized Environments

Authors:
Darin Nikolow
Renata Slota
Jacek Kitowski

Keywords: Quality of Service; Service Level Agreement; Storage Cloud; virtualization;

Abstract:
Storage performance of a single virtual machine in a cloud computing environment may be affected by other machines using the same physical storage. At the same time, user requirements concerning quality of service continue to increase, which brings new challenges for virtualized environments. In this paper we present the results of our research concerning data storage QoS. We discuss the quality aspects of storage services and propose a method for ensuring storage QoS by using monitoring and performance prediction based on heuristics. We also propose several heuristic policies, which can be implemented in a data transfer scheduler. Finally, we discuss test results obtained in a virtualized environment.

Pages: 110 to 115

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-106-9

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010