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Block-Level Virtualization: How Far Can We Go?

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Overview This paper presents the vision on building large-scale storage systems from commodity components in a data center. For reasons of efficiency and flexibility, the paper advocates maintaining sophisticated data management functions behind a block-based interface. The paper anticipates that such an interface can be customized to meet the diverse needs of end-users and applications through the extensible storage system architecture that the paper proposes.

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Publisher	University of Toronto	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Data Center, Virtualization

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