SLAS: An efficient approach to scaling round-robin striped volumes
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Design and Implementation of an Out-of-Band Virtualization System for Large SANs
IEEE Transactions on Computers
FastScale: accelerate RAID scaling by minimizing data migration
FAST'11 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on File and stroage technologies
TH-VSS: an asymmetric storage virtualization system for the SAN environment
ICCS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part III
A cluster LVM for SAN environments
ISPA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
MagicStore: a new out-of-band virtualization system in SAN environments
NPC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP international conference on Network and Parallel Computing
Rotational lease: providing high availability in a shared storage file system
HPCC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
Design and Evaluation of a New Approach to RAID-0 Scaling
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
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Abstract: Logical volume managers have long been a key components of storage system. Their key features are creation of logical or virtual view of physical storage devices and support for various software RAID levels. These make it possible to overcome the limits to capacity, availability and performance of a physical storage device. Most logical volume managers are operated in a single system environment. They are not adequate for SAN Environments where several hosts share and access a logical volume at the same time. Some recent logical volume managers are run in a multi-host environment. However, they can't support the enterprise computing environments in which the system must support 24x7x365 uptime operations such as online resizing and online backup. In this paper, we propose a logical volume manager called 'SANtopia Volume Manager' that supports multi-host environments and provides various volume management features to support enterprise computing. Also it is a cluster enabled logical volume manager that maximizes the parallelism for high performance, and provides high scalability and high availability.