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Traveling to Rome: QoS Specifications for Automated Storage System Management

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The design and operation of very large-scale storage systems is an area ripe for application of automated design and management techniques - and at the heart of such techniques is the need to represent storage system QoS in many guises: the goals (service level requirements) for the storage system, predictions for the design that results, enforcement constraints for the runtime system to guarantee, and observations made of the system as it runs. Rome is the information model that the Storage Systems Program at HP Laboratories has developed to address these needs. We use it as an ‘information bus’ to tie together our storage system design, configuration, and monitoring tools. In 5 years of development, Rome is now on its third iteration; this paper describes its information model, with emphasis on the QoS-related components, and presents some of the lessons we have learned over the years in using it.

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  1. Storage Systems Program, HP Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

    John Wilkes

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Computing Center Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, Zirkel 2, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Lars Wolf

  2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

    David Hutchison

  3. GMD IPSI, German National Research Center for Information Technology Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Dolivostr. 15, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ralf Steinmetz

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Wilkes, J. (2001). Traveling to Rome: QoS Specifications for Automated Storage System Management. In: Wolf, L., Hutchison, D., Steinmetz, R. (eds) Quality of Service — IWQoS 2001. IWQoS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45512-4_7

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