Flipstone: managing storage with fail-in-place and deferred maintenance service models

Authors:
Mohammad Banikazemi;Jim Hafner;Wendy Belluomini;KK Rao;Dan Poff;Bulent Abali
Affiliations:
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY;Almaden Research Center, IBM Research, San Jose, CA;Almaden Research Center, IBM Research, San Jose, CA;Almaden Research Center, IBM Research, San Jose, CA;Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY;Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY
Venue:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The cost of managing storage systems has become one of the significant expense items in data centers. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of Flipstone, a new storage system with reduced storage management cost. Flipstone provides fail-in-place and deferred maintenance by aggregating large number of off-the-shelf, inexpensive storage systems. We show a significant improvement in total cost of ownership of storage systems by reducing the number of service calls when Flipstone is used.