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LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
PoDIM: A Language for High-Level Configuration Management
The high rate of requirement changes make system administration a complex task. This complexity is further influenced by the increasing scale, unpredictable behaviour of software ...
Thomas Delaet, Wouter Joosen
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Moobi: A Thin Server Management System Using BitTorrent
We describe a tool that provides a method for running dataless caching clients – a hybrid combination of imaging systems with traditional diskless nodes. Unlike imaging systems,...
Chris McEniry
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTG
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
David Plonka, Archit Gupta, Dale Carder
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Secure Isolation of Untrusted Legacy Applications
Existing applications often contain security holes that are not patched until after the system has already been compromised. Even when software updates are available, applying the...
Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh, Matt Selsky
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...
James R. Hamilton
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Decision Support for Virtual Machine Re-Provisioning in Production Environments
Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
Kyrre M. Begnum, Matthew Disney, Æleen Frisc...