Renaissance: managing the network computer and its storage requirements

Author

Foster, A. ; Habermehl, D.

Author_Institution

Epoch Syst. Inc., Westboro, MA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-10 Oct. 1991

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The authors describe a set of solutions developed to address the storage management problem for networks of workstations and fileservers. Specifically, they describe the implementation of the Renaissance Infinite Storage Manager (ISM). Based on the bitfile client and bitfile server components of the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model, the network ISM uses a mass storage server as backing store for magnetic disks attached to workstations and workgroup servers on a network. The ISM preserves the transparency of access while the contents of the least recently used storage on the network automatically migrate to the storage server.<>

Keywords

distributed processing; file servers; storage management; IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model; Renaissance Infinite Storage Manager; access transparency; backing store; bitfile client; bitfile server; data migration; fileservers; least recently used storage; mass storage server; migrate; network ISM; storage management; workgroup servers; workstations; Computer network management; Computer networks; Content management; Costs; Energy management; Environmental economics; Network servers; Power system management; Storage automation; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1991. Digest of Papers., Eleventh IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2155-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1991.160196

Filename

160196