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An analytic model of hierarchical mass storage systems with network-attached storage devices

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Daniel A. Menascé,

Odysseas I. Pentakalos,

Yelena YeshaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 24, Issue 1

Pages 180 - 189

https://doi.org/10.1145/233008.233041

Published: 15 May 1996 Publication History

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Network attached storage devices improve I/O performance by separating control and data paths and eliminating host intervention during data transfer. Devices are attached to a high speed network for data transfer and to a slower network for control messages. Hierarchical mass storage systems use disks to cache the most recently used files and tapes (robotic and manually mounted) to store the bulk of the files in the file system. This paper shows how queuing network models can be used to assess the performance of hierarchical mass storage systems that use network attached storage devices. The analytic model validated through simulation was used to analyze many different scenarios.

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 24, Issue 1

May 1996

273 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/233008

Editors:
Blaine E. Gaither
Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO
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Daniel A. Reed
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

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SIGMETRICS '96: Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
May 1996
279 pages
ISBN:0897917936
DOI:10.1145/233013
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Daniel A. Reed
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
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