東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Improving the storage manageability,...

Zhao, Xin.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems./
Author:	Zhao, Xin.
Description:	180 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Atul Prakash.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11B.
Subject:	Computer Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3287672
ISBN:	9780549305569

Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems.
Zhao, Xin.

Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems. - 180 p.

Adviser: Atul Prakash.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.

Virtual machine technology is being widely used for many applications such as server consolidation, software testing, and fault isolation. While it provides tremendous benefits to users, it also imposes higher requirements on VM storage manageability, flexibility, and security. Unfortunately, the main form of storage for conventional virtual machines, virtual disks, have serious limitations with respect to flexibility and security. This dissertation proposes a virtualization aware file system (VAFS) named Prism, which works as an alternative to virtual disks, but helps improve manageability, flexibility, and security of virtual machines.

ISBN: 9780549305569Subjects--Topical Terms:

626642
Computer Science.

Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems.
LDR:03280nam 2200301 a 45 001 941120
005 20110518
008 110518s2007 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780549305569
035 $a (UMI)AAI3287672
035 $a AAI3287672
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Zhao, Xin. $3 1023944
245 1 0 $a Improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems.
300 $a 180 p.
500 $a Adviser: Atul Prakash.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: B, page: 7460.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.
520 $a Virtual machine technology is being widely used for many applications such as server consolidation, software testing, and fault isolation. While it provides tremendous benefits to users, it also imposes higher requirements on VM storage manageability, flexibility, and security. Unfortunately, the main form of storage for conventional virtual machines, virtual disks, have serious limitations with respect to flexibility and security. This dissertation proposes a virtualization aware file system (VAFS) named Prism, which works as an alternative to virtual disks, but helps improve manageability, flexibility, and security of virtual machines.
520 $a Prism extends a conventional distributed filesystem, NFSv3, with new features such as cloning, sharing, and isolation. It presents each VM with a dedicated filesystem that is semantically isolated from filesystems in other VMs. Guest applications can read and write files on the Prism filesystem without requiring any modification. As a central storage, Prism can map identical files in different VMs to one file on disk, substantially reducing storage and disk I/O overhead. If one attempts to write a shared file, Prism performs copy-on-write to preserve isolation between VMs. The thesis describes the Prism file mapping and copy-on-write mechanisms.
520 $a Prism offers a cloning primitive that can selectively clone one or more VMs' filesystems to compose a new VM's filesystem. The Prism cloning primitive is semantically similar to a copy operation in a conventional filesystem, except much faster. From an end-user perspective, cloning is completed instantaneously, irrespective of the size of the cloned filesystem. The Prism cloning mechanism uses disk space very efficiently. The parent and cloned filesystem share data of unchanged files, which usually occupy a large portion of files. Prism only consumes additional space to store changes between the parent and its clone.
520 $a In addition, this dissertation proposes two techniques, Virtual Remote Procedure Call (VRPC) and Inter-VM Metadata Sharing , to improve the Prism performance. The two techniques use shared memory to substantially reduce the overhead of Prism communication between VMs on a same physical computer. Experiments show that the two techniques can make Prism performance close to a local filesystem running on virtual disks for normal workloads.
590 $a School code: 0127.
650 4 $a Computer Science. $3 626642
690 $a 0984
710 2 $a University of Michigan. $3 777416
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 68-11B.
790 $a 0127
790 1 0 $a Prakash, Atul, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2007
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3287672