Hippodrome: running circles around storage administration
Eric Anderson, Michael Hobbs, Kim Keeton, Susan Spence, Mustafa Uysal, Alistair Veitch
Abstract:
Enterprise-scale computer storage systems are extremely difficult to
manage due to their size and complexity. It is difficult to generate
a good storage system design for a given workload and to correctly
implement the selected design. Traditionally, initial system
configuration is performed by administrators who are guided by rules
of thumb. Unfortunately, this process involves trial and error, and
as a result is tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we introduce
Hippodrome, an approach to automating initial system configuration.
Hippodrome is an iterative loop that analyzes an existing system to
determine its requirements, creates a new storage system design to
better meet these requirements, and migrates the existing system to
the new design. In this paper, we show how Hippodrome automates
initial system configuration.
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Last modified: Tue Jul 10 21:36:53 PDT 2001
by Alistair Veitch (aveitch@hpl.hp.com)