The I/O Workload in Network-Attached Storage Environments
Jiangling Zhang · Computer Engineering and Science · 2004
Network-attached storage devices change the connection relationship with the host system, and provide direct storage services to network users using its own computing capability. This structural change makes the storage disposal mode change, thus makes the workload characteristics of storage device change. This paper considers that storage workload relates not only to application environments, but also to the storage disposal mode, and analyzes the characteristics of the I/O workloads of both traditional and network-attached storage systems.