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Hybrid in-memory storage for cloud infrastructure

  • Kim, Dae Won;Kim, Sun Wook;Oh, Soo Cheol
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.57-67
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    • 2021
  • Modern cloud computing is rapidly changing from traditional hypervisor-based virtual machines to container-based cloud-native environments. Due to limitations in I/O performance required for both virtual machines and containers, the use of high-speed storage (SSD, NVMe, etc.) is increasing, and in-memory computing using main memory is also emerging. Running a virtual environment on main memory gives better performance compared to other storage arrays. However, RAM used as main memory is expensive and due to its volatile characteristics, data is lost when the system goes down. Therefore, additional work is required to run the virtual environment in main memory. In this paper, we propose a hybrid in-memory storage that combines a block storage such as a high-speed SSD with main memory to safely operate virtual machines and containers on main memory. In addition, the proposed storage showed 6 times faster write speed and 42 times faster read operation compared to regular disks for virtual machines, and showed the average 12% improvement of container's performance tests.

Performance Analysis of Virtual Storage

  • Wei, X;RO, CheulWoo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.511-512
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    • 2018
  • Virtual machine technology enables multiple hosts to share the same LUN(Logical Unit Number) and the same storage, but if too many hosts share the same LUN, it will increase the delay. In this paper we propose a performance model, get several values of scalable storage performance in virtual environment, and present the results examined the effects of I/O queuing in a virtual infrastructure. This results show how to make the most effective use of our storage resources.

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Digital Contents Control for Desktop Virtualization: A Case of Virtual Folder Based Implementation (데스크톱 가상화에 따른 디지털콘텐츠 통제방안: 가상폴더방식의 구현사례)

  • Yoon, Han Seong
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2014
  • Recently, with the enlargement of cloud computing, virtual desktop infrastructure(VDI) can be an alternative of the existing personal computer based information environment. For the case of partially introduced VDI coexisting with personal computer environment, we suggest a virtual folder based approach to control the overall digital contents within an organization with a case of implementation. Although a centralizing device was used for storage and sharing of organization's digital contents, it was not easy to accomplish centralizing digital contents completely. It is tried to prevent users from utilizing their own storage in their personal computers or virtual machines and to use virtual folder which transfer and store digital contents to and in EDMS. The virtual folder system of this paper looks like a real folder in a personal computer, but it is another virtual device for outer storage devices including EDMS. It can be an alternative and reference of digital contents control for future applications of cloud computing.

Design and Implementation of Inline Data Deduplication in Cluster File System (클러스터 파일 시스템에서 인라인 데이터 중복제거 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Youngchul;Kim, Cheiyol;Lee, Sangmin;Kim, Youngkyun
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.369-374
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    • 2016
  • The growing demand of virtual computing and storage resources in the cloud computing environment has led to deduplication of storage system for effective reduction and utilization of storage space. In particular, large reduction in the storage space is made possible by preventing data with identical content as the virtual desktop images from being stored on the virtual desktop infrastructure. However, in order to provide reliable support of virtual desktop services, the storage system must address a variety of workloads by virtual desktop, such as performance overhead due to deduplication, periodic data I/O storms and frequent random I/O operations. In this paper, we designed and implemented a clustered file system to support virtual desktop and storage services in cloud computing environment. The proposed clustered file system provides low storage consumption by means of inline deduplication on virtual desktop images. In addition, it reduces performance overhead by deduplication process in the data server and not the virtual host on which virtual desktops are running.

A Research on Virtual Disk Reconstruction Method on Windows Storage Space (윈도우 저장소 공간 시스템 상의 가상 디스크 재구성 방법 연구)

  • Kim, Junho;Choi, Hoyong;Lee, Sangjin
    • Journal of Digital Forensics
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2018
  • Recently, as the amount of digital data rapidly increases, a large storage space is required. RAID is a system that can manage large capacity storage space. Storage space provided by Windows is a type of software RAID. Storage space has been supported since Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and no analysis has been done on the functionality. To analyze system using storage space, analysis of storage space function and reconstruction method of virtual disk should be studied. In this paper, we briefly describe the layout of existing RAID, explain the layout and metadata of storage space of software RAID, present reconstruction method of virtual disk by disk layout, and verify the result through experiments.

Storage Feature-Based Watermarking Algorithm with Coordinate Values Preservation for Vector Line Data

  • Zhou, Qifei;Ren, Na;Zhu, Changqing;Tong, Deyu
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.3475-3496
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    • 2018
  • Most of current watermarking algorithms for GIS vector data embed copyright information by means of modifying the coordinate values, which will do harm to its quality and accuracy. To preserve the fidelity of vector line data and protect its copyright at the same time, a lossless watermarking algorithm is proposed based on storage feature in this paper. Firstly, the superiority of embedding watermark based on storage feature is demonstrated theoretically and technically. Then, the basic concepts and operations on storage feature have been defined including length and angle of the polyline feature. In the process of embedding watermark, the watermark information is embedded into directions of polyline feature by the quantitative mechanism, while the positions of embedding watermark are determined by the feature length. Hence, the watermark can be extracted by the same geometric features without original data or watermark. Finally, experiments have been conducted to show that coordinate values remain unchanged after embedding watermark. Moreover, experimental results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

Big Data Management System for Biomedical Images to Improve Short-term and Long-term Storage

  • Qamar, Shamweel;Kim, Eun Sung;Park, Peom
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2019
  • In digital pathology, an electronic system in the biomedical domain storage of the files is a big constrain and because all the analysis and annotation takes place at every user-end manually, it becomes even harder to manage the data that is being shared inside an enterprise. Therefore, we need such a storage system which is not only big enough to store all the data but also manage it and making communication of that data much easier without losing its true from. A virtual server setup is one of those techniques which can solve this issue. We set a main server which is the main storage for all the virtual machines(that are being used at user-end) and that main server is controlled through a hypervisor so that if we want to make changes in storage overall or the main server in itself, it could be reached remotely from anywhere by just using the server's IP address. The server in our case includes XML-RPC based API which are transmitted between computers using HTTP protocol. JAVA API connects to HTTP/HTTPS protocol through JAVA Runtime Environment and exists on top of other SDK web services for the productivity boost of the running application. To manage the server easily, we use Tkinter library to develop the GUI and pmw magawidgets library which is also utilized through Tkinter. For managing, monitoring and performing operations on virtual machines, we use Python binding to XML-RPC based API. After all these settings, we approach to make the system user friendly by making GUI of the main server. Using that GUI, user can perform administrative functions like restart, suspend or resume a virtual machine. They can also logon to the slave host of the pool in case of emergency and if needed, they can also filter virtual machine by the host. Network monitoring can be performed on multiple virtual machines at same time in order to detect any loss of network connectivity.

Implementation of Cloud-Based Virtual Laboratory using SOI and CIMP on Virtual Machines

  • Ferdiansyah, Doddy;Hwang, Mintae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2022
  • In this research, we create a network infrastructure based on a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI) for the virtualization technology and integrate it with a cloud technology that applies the cloud integration management platform (CIMP) concept. In CIMP, the server and storage will be separated. The server will be adopted for virtualization while the storage will be used by students and teachers to store data. As long they save their data in the storage module, every time, everywhere, and on every device, they can access their data. This research will implement the design of the network infrastructure and be applied to the remote practical learning system in the laboratory. Students and teachers will ultimately adopt this network infrastructure for remote practice using their respective devices without physically meeting in the laboratory. In the future, if the implementation phase is successful, then in addition to laboratory environments, it can be implemented in all learning activities at our campus.

Online Snapshot Method based on Directory and File Change Tracking for Virtual File System (가상파일시스템에서 디렉토리 및 파일 변경 추적에 기반한 온라인 스냅샷 방법)

  • Kim, Jinsu;Song, Seokil;Shin, Jae Ryong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.417-425
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    • 2019
  • Storage snapshot technology allows to preserve data at a specific point in time, and recover and access data at a desired point in time. It is an essential technology for storage protection application. Existing snapshot methods have some problems in that they dependent on storage hardware vendor, file system or virtual block device. In this paper, we propose a new snapshot method for solving the problems and creating snapshots on-line. The proposed snapshot method uses a method of extracting the log records of update operations at the virtual file system layer to enable the snapshot method to operate independently on file systems, virtual block devices, and storage hardwares. In addition, the proposed snapshot mehod creates and manages snapshots for directories and files without interruption to the storage service. Finally, through experiments we measure the snapshot creation time and the performance degradation caused by the snapshot.

A Virtual Storage System for Smart Home/Office Embedded Devices (스마트 홈/오피스 임베디드 장치를 위한 가상 저장 시스템)

  • They, Yu-Shu;Kim, Young-Jin;Lim, Hyo-Taek
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1237-1239
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    • 2007
  • This paper proposes a virtual storage system for smart home/office embedded devices by utilizing AoE and HyperSCSI protocols. It relies on current Ethernet infrastructures and aims to provide a low-cost solution for the storage limitation problem on embedded devices. We choose AoE (ATA over Ethernet) and HyperSCSI in our implementation because they are relatively lightweight compared to other network storage protocols such as NFS(Network File System), CIFS(Common Internet File System) and iSCSI(internet Small Computer System Interface). The design and architecture of our proposed virtual system as well as the prototype demonstration are presented in this paper.