Data Distribution Strategy Research on One Self-Managing Storage System

Abstract

In this paper we describe Evolutionary Storage System, a Self-Managing Storage System that could adjust its storage strategy automatically according to the current running environment. In the evolutionary processes, ESS could automatically choose one system organizing strategy which fits for the current running environment best, to keep the dynamic balance of the whole storage system. One of the three evolutionary ways is data distribution evolutionary, the data distribution strategy considers both the application data accessing frequency and physical disk performance, and adjust the data distribution automatically to optimize the storage system read/write performance.We have constructed a simulation model to demonstrate how the system performance could be improved by applying the data distribution strategy.