HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTER WITH COMBINING NAS AND ISCSI
To meet enterprise and grand challenge-scale performance and high availability requirements, a new type of storage cluster-iSCSI-based NAS Cluster (iNC) is being designed. There are many advantages in an iNC system: firstly,it provides scalability without the added complexity by a single consolidated centralized storage management view for integrating multi-NAS with Multi-user Virtualized File System;secondly, it provides the flexibility for application by combining file-based NAS and block-based SANs via iSCSI in the same device; thirdly, it provides high performance and high availability by load-balancing and fault-tolerating mechanism; finally, it eliminates the single failure point and the bottleneck of I/O performance for the metadata server by Storage Agency. In this paper, we describe an implementation that demonstrates and validates iNC potential. The I/O throughput for both file and block I/O requests, and the availability of our prototype are higher than that of NAS.
High availability cluster iSCSI NAS
LI-GU ZHU DE-ZHI HAN SHI-ZHENG ZHOU CHANG-SHENG XIE
School of Computer and Software, China University of Communication,Beijing 100024, China;School of C Computer department of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China School of Computer and Software, China University of Communication,Beijing 100024, China School of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
国际会议
2006 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics(IEEE第五届机器学习与控制论坛)
大连
英文
4455-4460
2006-08-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）