A commodity I/O device has no support for virtualization. A VMM can assign such a device to a single guest with direct, fast, but insecure access by the guest's native device...
The flexibility provided by hardware virtualization allows administrators to rapidly create, destroy, and migrate systems across physical hosts. Unfortunately, the storage systems...
Dutch T. Meyer, Brendan Cully, Jake Wires, Norman ...
Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it c...
Daniel J. Magenheimer, Chris Mason, Dave McCracken...
SR-IOV capable network devices offer the benefits of direct I/O throughput and reduced CPU utilization while greatly increasing the scalability and sharing capabilities of the devi...
Efficiently managing storage is important for virtualized computing environments. Its importance is magnified by developments such as cloud computing which consolidate many thousa...
Mitigating the impact of computer failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure...
SALSA examines system logs to derive state-machine views of the sytem's execution, along with control-flow, data-flow models and related statistics. Exploiting SALSA's d...
Hard disk drives returned back to Seagate undergo the Field Return Incoming Test. During the test, the available logs in disk drives are collected, if possible. These logs contain...
Error logs are a fruitful source of information both for diagnosis as well as for proactive fault handling ? however elaborate data preparation is necessary to filter out valuable...