Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2024.3391390
Kevin Nguetchouang;Stella Bitchebe;Theophile Dubuc;Mar Callau-Zori;Christophe Hubert;Pierre Olivier;Alain Tchana
Contrary to CPU, memory, and network, disk virtualization is peculiar, for which virtualization through direct access is impossible. We study virtual disk utilization in a large-scale public cloud and observe the presence of long snapshot chains, sometimes composed of up to 1,000 files. We then demonstrate, through experimental measurements, that such long chains lead to virtualized storage performance and memory footprint scalability issues. To address these problems, we present SVD