Research on Key Technologies of Load Balancing for NFS Server with Multiple Network Paths

Author

Chen, Huan ; Tang, Rongfeng ; Zhao, Yi ; Xiong, Jin ; Ma, Jie ; Sun, Ninghui

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

411

Abstract

NFS server is designed to run on a single node. Even if NFS server is configured with multiple network interfaces, each client can only access NFS server through one network interface of the server. In this paper, we design and implement the multi-path load distribution mechanism in the SunRPC layer of NFS. This mechanism allows the NFS clients to use the aggregated network bandwidth of the server which has multiple network channels and balances the load among the multiple network channels. The result shows that the extended version of NFS can make good use of multi-path of the server and can tolerate network failure

Keywords

client-server systems; fault tolerant computing; resource allocation; NFS server; SunRPC layer; failure tolerance; load balancing; multipath load distribution; multiple network channels; multiple network paths; network bandwidth; network file system; network interface; Bandwidth; Bonding; Computer networks; File servers; File systems; Linux; Load management; Network interfaces; Network servers; Switches; Failure tolerance; Load balance; NFS; Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshops, 2006. GCCW '06. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2695-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCW.2006.79

Filename

4031583