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The quick adoption of virtualization technology in general and the advent of the Cloud business model entail new requirements on the structure and the configuration of back-end I/O systems. Several approaches to virtualization of I/O links are being introduced, which aim at implementing a more flexible I/O channel configuration without compromising performance. While previously the management of I/O devices could be limited to basic technical requirments (e.g. the establishment and termination of fixed-point links), the additional flexibility carries in its wake additional management requirements on the representation and control of I/O sub-systems.
This paper focuses on the modelling of dynamic and static aspects of the management of virtual I/O devices. Based on management scenarios and common operations on virtual machines we propose management function prototoypes and discuss the corresponding necessary information items.
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Danciu, V.A., Metzker, M.G. (2010). On I/O Virtualization Management. In: Boursas, L., Carlson, M., Jin, H., Sibilla, M., Wold, K. (eds) Systems and Virtualization Management. Standards and the Cloud. SVM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14944-3_9
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