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FAST '03 Abstract
Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees
Christopher R. Lumb, Carnegie Mellon University; Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; and Guillermo A. Alvarez, IBM Almaden Research Center
Abstract
High-end storage systems, such as those in large
data centers, must service multiple independent
workloads. Workloads often require predictable
quality of service, despite the fact that they have to
compete with other rapidly-changing workloads for
access to common storage resources. We present a
novel approach to providing performance guaran-tees
in this highly-volatile scenario, in an efficient
and cost-effective way. Façade, a virtual store controller,
sits between hosts and storage devices in
the network, and throttles individual I/O requests
from multiple clients so that devices do not saturate.
We implemented a prototype, and evaluated it using
real workloads on an enterprise storage system. We
also instantiated it to the particular case of emulating
commercial disk arrays. Our results show
that Façade satisfies performance objectives while
making efficient use of the storage resources—even
in the presence of of failures and bursty workloads
with stringent performance requirements.
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