Scalable, high performance InfiniBand-attached SAN Volume Controller

Author

Guthridge, D. Scott

Author_Institution

Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 1 2008

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

458

Abstract

We have developed a highly reliable InfiniBand host attached block storage management and virtualization system that supports several off-the-shelf Fibre Channel RAID controllers on the back end. The system is based on the existing IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) product, and therefore offers performance, a wide array of storage virtualization features, and support for many existing storage controllers. We provide an overview of the driver design as well as performance results. Large read performance from SVC cache exceeds 3 GB/s in a minimal two-node cluster configuration.

Keywords

RAID; storage area networks; storage management; IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller; SAN volume controller; block storage management; fibre channel RAID controller; reliable InfiniBand host; scalable high performance InfiniBand; storage virtualization; virtualization system; Cache storage; Centralized control; Control systems; Fabrics; Quality of service; Resource management; Static VAr compensators; Storage area networks; Supercomputers; Uninterruptible power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba

ISSN

1552-5244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2639-3

Electronic_ISBN

1552-5244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLUSTR.2008.4663807

Filename

4663807