Research on the High Availability Storage Network

Author

Han, Dezhi ; Feng, Fu

Author_Institution

Guangdong Key Lab. of Inf. Security, Guangdong Univ. of foreign studies, Guangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper introduces an IP-based high-available storage network (for short HASN), featured by the following advantages: firstly, it integrates multi-NAS and SAN with OSD through a global multi-protocol file system (for short GMPFS), with greater capacity and better scalability than each of them; secondly, it simultaneously serves both the file I/O and the block I/O by an iSCSI module, with all the advantages of a NAS and a SAN; thirdly, with a storage agency (for short SA), the HASN I/O performance is improved and server bottlenecks are reduced; fourthly, high availability is attained by way of a high-available file system. In addition, in the experiment concerned, the HASN has proved to be a network storage system with great capacity producing an ultra-high-throughput for both the file I/O and the block I/O.

Keywords

IP networks; file servers; storage area networks; transport protocols; GMPFS; HASN prototype system; IP-based high-availability storage network; OSD; SAN; block I/O system; file I/O system; file server; global multiprotocol file system; iSCSI module; network storage system; ultra-high-throughput; Availability; Fault detection; File servers; File systems; Network servers; Protocols; Scalability; Secure storage; Storage area networks; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1364

Filename

4679272