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VICS: A Storage Virtualization Management System for SAN

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Overview Storage Area Networks (SANs) have the virtues of high scalability, high availability and high performance. On the other hand, their storage virtualization systems are not compatible with multi-operating systems, and it is hard for the virtualization storage management system to manage multi-type storage. This paper proposes a new virtualization storage management model for SANs: Virtual Intelligent Control System (VICS). It includes three layers, the logical storage management layer, the virtualization layer and the storage resource management layer. With the logical management layer and the storage resource management layer the VICS can manage multi operating systems and is compatible with various storage systems. The VICS controls the storage resources through the FC network and applies the LUNs for various operating systems, giving users a uniform management interface.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Tsinghua University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, SANs, Virtualization

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