The diploma thesis is focused on expansion of current KVM virtualization infrastructure with network storage in a web hosting company environment. The first part describes the basics of the network storage field, and the virtualization field as well. This is amended by a description of the current solution in the company, which is going to be expanded. The searching for suitable innovative solution is following, several variants are found, each of them is commented and their advantages and disadvantages are summarized. The realization of the selected solution is implemented, including the testing on the practical part.

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Virtual machines are gaining a growing importance in modern business IT infrastructure. They facilitate multiple operating system instances on one physical host, which provides more efficient use of the computing power of the physical host but increases the amount of network traffic as well. To avoid potential network congestion and prioritize link resource usage in a virtual machine system, we propose a bandwidth regulation scheme. Extensive evaluation demonstrates that this bandwidth regulation scheme is accurate and effective. In addition, we resolved a drastic performance degradation of the Open-iSCSI initiator. We thoroughly tested the performance of the Open-iSCSI initiator and three modified versions under two methods of setting the TCP send buffer size - statically and dynamically. Based on these results, we propose a performance tuning scheme, which can enable users of Open-iSCSI, especially those using Open-iSCSI over a long fat network, to achieve significant throughput gains.

Σκοπός αυτής της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η δημιουργία ενός διαδικτυακού σκληρού δίσκου, ο οποίος θα βασίζεται στο ενσωματωμένο επικοινωνιακό σύστήμα Zedboard και το λειτουργικό σύστημα Linux. Χρησιμοποιώντας λοιπόν τον Microsoft iSCSI client θα διαβάζονται και θα γράφονται δεδομένα πάνω στο board, το οποίο θα παίζει ρόλο server. Για την υλοποίηση αυτή θα πρέπει να προγραμματιστεί το board κατάλληλα σύμφωνα με το διαδικτυακό πρωτόκολλο αποθήκευσης iSCSI, έτσι ώστε να μπορεί να ανταλλάσει δεδομένα με τον client. Τελικός στόχος λοιπόν, θα είναι η διαδικτυακή εγγραφή και ανάγνωση δεδομένων από την DRAM του Zedboard, η οποία θα πραγματοποιείται έχοντας σαν βάση το TCP/IP και το διαδικτυακό πρωτόκολλο αποθήκευσης δεδομένων. / --

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Bruce A. Harvey, Florida State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 10, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 73 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Virtualization is a technique that allows several virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical machine (PM) by adding a virtualization layer above the physical host's hardware. Many virtualization products allow a VM be migrated from one PM to other PM without interrupting the services running on the VM. This is called live migration and offers many potential advantages like server consolidation, reduced energy consumption, disaster recovery, reliability, and efficient workflows such as "Follow-the-Sun''. At present, the advantages of VM live migration are limited to Local Area Networks (LANs) as migrations over Wide Area Networks (WAN) offer lower performance due to IP address changes in the migrating VMs and also due to large network latency. For scenarios which require migrations, shared storage solutions like iSCSI (block storage) and NFS (file storage) are used to store the VM's disk to avoid the high latencies associated with disk state migration when private storage is used. When using iSCSI or NFS, all the disk I/O operations generated by the VM are encapsulated and carried to the shared storage over the IP network. The underlying latency in WAN will effect the performance of application requesting the disk I/O from the VM. In this thesis our objective was to determine the performance of shared and private storage when VMs are live migrated in networks with high latency, with WANs as the typical case. To achieve this objective, we used Iometer, a disk benchmarking tool, to investigate the I/O performance of iSCSI and NFS when used as shared storage for live migrating Xen VMs over emulated WANs. In addition, we have configured the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) system to provide private storage for our VMs through incremental disk replication. Then, we have studied the I/O performance of the private storage solution in the context of live disk migration and compared it to the performance of shared storage based on iSCSI and NFS. The results from our testbed indicate that the DRBD-based solution should be preferred over the considered shared storage solutions because DRBD consumed less network bandwidth and has a lower maximum I/O response time.