Performance Comparison of IP-Networked Storage  

作　　者：鞠大鹏 刘川意 汪东升 刘宏 汤志忠 

机构地区：[1]Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University [2]Tsinghua-Nuctech Data Security Institute, Tsinghua University [3]Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

出　　处：《Tsinghua Science and Technology》2009年第1期29-40,共12页清华大学学报（自然科学版（英文版）

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 60273006);the Basic Research Foundation of Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology(TNList)

摘　　要：Dramatically increasing amounts of digital data are placing huge requirements on storage systems.IP-networked storage systems, such as the network file system （NFS）-based network-attached storage （NAS） systems and the iSCSl-storage area network （SAN） systems, have become increasingly common in today＇s local area network （LAN） environments. The emergence of new storage techniques, such as object-based storage （OBS） and content aware storage （CAS）, significantly improves the functionality of storage devices to meet further needs for storage sub-systems. However, these may impact system performance. This papercompares the performance of NFS, iSCSI storage, object-based storage devices （OSDs）, and CAS-based storage systems in an environment with no data sharing across host machines. A gigabit ethernet network is used as the storage network. Test results demonstrate that the performances of these systems are compa- rable with CAS being much better than the others for write operations. The performance bottlenecks in these systems are analyzed to provide insight into how future storage systems may be improved and possible optimization methods. The analysis shows how the I/O interfaces in these systems affect the application performance and that network-based storage systems require optimized I/O latency and reduced network and buffer processing in the servers.Dramatically increasing amounts of digital data are placing huge requirements on storage systems.IP-networked storage systems, such as the network file system （NFS）-based network-attached storage （NAS） systems and the iSCSl-storage area network （SAN） systems, have become increasingly common in today＇s local area network （LAN） environments. The emergence of new storage techniques, such as object-based storage （OBS） and content aware storage （CAS）, significantly improves the functionality of storage devices to meet further needs for storage sub-systems. However, these may impact system performance. This papercompares the performance of NFS, iSCSI storage, object-based storage devices （OSDs）, and CAS-based storage systems in an environment with no data sharing across host machines. A gigabit ethernet network is used as the storage network. Test results demonstrate that the performances of these systems are compa- rable with CAS being much better than the others for write operations. The performance bottlenecks in these systems are analyzed to provide insight into how future storage systems may be improved and possible optimization methods. The analysis shows how the I/O interfaces in these systems affect the application performance and that network-based storage systems require optimized I/O latency and reduced network and buffer processing in the servers.

关 键 词：storage technique CAS area network performance comparison IP-networked storage 

分 类 号：TN915.05[电子电信—通信与信息系统]