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To work out a network storage system with a large capacity, a high I/O speed, availability and scalability, a iSCSI-based NAS cluster (iNASC) has been designed. Firstly, the iNASC integrates multi-NAS with the storage virtualization and redundancy technologies, which can provide a greater capacity, higher availability and scalability; secondly, the iNASC simultaneously serves for both the file I/O and the block I/O with an iSCSI module, which has the advantages of NAS and SAN; thirdly, the parallel file I/O performance is improved by a parallel FTP module; finally, the iNASC can provide higher I/O speed by a high speed IP channel which implements the direct data transfer between the NAS and client. In the experiments, the iNASC has ultra-high-throughput for the file I/O and block I/O requests.
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Han, D., Xie, C., Yi, F. (2004). iNASC: A iSCSI-Based NAS Storage Cluster. In: Jin, H., Pan, Y., Xiao, N., Sun, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2004 Workshops. GCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30207-0_25
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