ISTORE conclusions
Availability, Maintainability, and Evolutionary growth are key challenges for server systems
- more important even than performance
ISTORE is investigating ways to bring AME to large-scale, storage-intensive servers
- via clusters of network-attached, computationally-enhanced storage nodes running distributed code
- via hardware and software introspection
- we are currently performing application studies to investigate and compare techniques
Availability benchmarks are a powerful tool
- revealed undocumented design decisions affecting SW RAID availability on Linux and Windows 2000