As disk arrays become widely used, tools for understanding and analyzing their performance become increasingly important. In particular, performance models can be invaluable in bo...
All enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays to satisfy their capacity, reliability, and availability requirements. Performance models of disk arrays are useful in underst...
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiao...
Enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays for their capacity and availability needs. To design and maintain storage systems that efficiently satisfy evolving requirements, ...
Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant
A variety of performance-enhancing techniques, such as striping, mirroring, and rotational data replication, exist in the disk array literature. Given a fixed budget of disks, one...
Xiang Yu, Benjamin Gum, Yuqun Chen, Randolph Y. Wa...
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...