ACStor

In virtualized data centers, the access of virtual disk images (VDIs) is critical for the overall system performance. As the system scales up to a large number of running VMs, the overall network traffic would become unbalanced with hot spots on some VMs inevitably, leading to I/O performance degradation when accessing the VMs. We propose an adaptive and collaborative VDI storage system (ACStor) to resolve the above performance issue, which can dynamically balance the traffic workloads in accessing VDI chunks based on the run-time network state.