LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
We describe a tool that provides a method for running dataless caching clients – a hybrid combination of imaging systems with traditional diskless nodes. Unlike imaging systems,...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Existing applications often contain security holes that are not patched until after the system has already been compromised. Even when software updates are available, applying the...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Computer and network administrators are often confused or uncertain about the behavior of their networks. Traditional analysis using IP ports, addresses, and protocols are insuffi...
LISA
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Contemporary storage systems separate the management of data from the management of the underlying physical storage media used to store that data. This separation is artificial an...