NDLI: Using the Distiller to direct the development of self-configuration software

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kurmas, Z. Keeton, K.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Coll. of Comput., Georgia Tech, Savannah, GA, USA (Kurmas, Z.)
Abstract	Many storage systems have become so complex that that the system administrator's salary represents almost half of the total cost of ownership. One approach to reducing this cost is to develop storage systems that can configure and manage themselves. Unfortunately, our ability to develop such software has been hindered by a limited understanding of how workloads and storage systems interact. In earlier work we presented the design of the Distiller - our tool that automates the process of finding a workload's key performance-affecting attributes. In this paper, we distill three production workloads and show that the values of the chosen attributes contain information that will help self-configuring disk array to choose a reasonable prefetch length and RAID stripe unit size. We also discuss how the chosen attributes may help direct the development of algorithms that compute near-optimal prefetch lengths and stripe unit sizes.
Starting Page	172
Ending Page	179
File Size	1385371
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769521142
DOI	10.1109/ICAC.2004.1301361
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-05-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Costs Prefetching Remuneration Hardware Educational institutions Production Information analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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