{"title":"File System Aware Storage Virtualization Management","authors":"Ankur Agrrawal, Rahul Shankar, Shagun Akarsh, Piyush Madan","doi":"10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354608","url":null,"abstract":"Virtualization has significantly improved hardware utilization, thus, allowing IT service providers to offer a wide range of application, platform and infrastructure solutions through low-cost, commoditized hardware. In this paper we focus on one such layer: storage virtualization, which enables a host system to map a guest VM's file system to almost any storage media. A file system maintains track of the actual storage in an efficient way so as to maximize the throughout and at the same time minimizes the time taken in accessing a memory block by using minimal resources. In this paper we propose Omni, a file system architecture for organization of data and metadata that will efficiently organize and enable sharing besides exploiting the power of storage virtualization and maintaining simplicity in such a highly complex and virtualized environment.","PeriodicalId":409273,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127482057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enterprise Compatible Cloud Object Storage and Synchronization Service","authors":"S. Bazar, H. Kolodner, E. Rom, S. R. Patil","doi":"10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354607","url":null,"abstract":"With the kind of growth that enterprises are witnessing, their enterprise data, especially the unstructured data, is growing like never before. This trend has led to an increase in the competition among various cloud storage services which are providing a wide range of options for storing data online. The access APIs offered by most cloud storage service providers are rarely in accordant with each other. Yet, sooner or later a company may need to find a new provider to store its data, e.g., if a new provider provides better service or at a cheaper cost. So, this lack of a common cloud API standard makes it difficult to move data from one service provider to another and is becoming a barrier to adoption by some customers. A common answer to this vendor lock-in lies in adapting common standards. The most promising direction for such is SNIA's Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), which describes the semantics of handling containers and data objects, including their metadata. In this paper we present our prototype (COSS - Cloud Object Storage and Synchronization) implementation of a CDMIcompatible enterprise Cloud Object Storage service. We also present a Synchronization service, an application that runs over the object store and explores how cloud-based clients might take advantage of it.","PeriodicalId":409273,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129426608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, D. Deshpande, Sreekanth Iyer
{"title":"Building Resilient Cloud over Unreliable Commodity Infrastructure","authors":"Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, D. Deshpande, Sreekanth Iyer","doi":"10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCEM.2012.6354601","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Computing has emerged as a successful computing paradigm for efficiently utilizing managed compute infrastructure such as high speed rack-mounted servers, connected with high speed networking, and reliable storage. Usually such infrastructure is dedicated, physically secured and has reliable power and networking infrastructure. However, much of our idle compute capacity is present in unmanaged infrastructure like idle desktops, lab machines, physically distant server machines, and laptops. We present a scheme to utilize this idle compute capacity on a best-effort basis and provide high availability even in face of failure of individual components or facilities. We run virtual machines on the commodity infrastructure and present a cloud interface to our end users. The primary challenge is to maintain availability in the presence of node failures, network failures, and power failures. We run multiple copies of a Virtual Machine (VM) redundantly on geographically dispersed physical machines to achieve availability. If one of the running copies of a VM fails, we seamlessly switchover to another running copy. We use Virtual Machine Record/Replay capability to implement this redundancy and switchover. In current progress, we have implemented VM Record/Replay for uniprocessor machines over Linux/KVM and are currently working on VM Record/Replay on shared-memory multiprocessor machines. We report initial experimental results based on our implementation.","PeriodicalId":409273,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127120668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}