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STORAGE PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECK DETECTION IN ERROR-FREE NETWORKED BLOCK STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS

Gupta et al., 2021

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7151667772165436504
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Gupta P
Bharadwaj H
Scrimo A
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Enterprise data centers employ a distributed block storage architecture for their Tier 1 workloads. Business-critical applications are hosted on servers having local compute and memory resources, but the storage is centralized within distributed storage devices …
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