Network attached storage and servers to develop services for virtual machines

近年来，“虚拟化”已成为企业计算的一大趋势。随着虚拟化支持的出现，现有且经常未得到充分利用的服务器可以转移到“虚拟计算机”(VM)中。这种方法允许将大量(10-100台)现有计算机整合到单个物理系统中。此外，除了其他好处外，虚拟化还因其“绿化”数据中心的能力而受到赞扬。导致现代计算设施所需的硬件和电力大幅减少。这笔拨款是为了支持一个小型的虚拟化试验台。我们的研究小组正在调查增强虚拟环境的低级别服务。我们建议将此试验台用于两个目的：第一，我们打算托管在我们部门自己的物理机上运行的实时服务器应用程序。*这将使我们能够对虚拟环境中的真实应用程序工作负载进行长期研究，并为我们在过去一年开发的存储和高可用性虚拟化服务提供真正的消费者。第二，此试验台将作为我们研究计划中正在进行的工作的开发设施。尤其是，该硬件提供了新发布的虚拟化和存储功能，这些功能目前无法供我们学习。

In recent years, "virtualization" has been a major trend in enterprise computing.  The emerging availability of virtualization support allows  existing, and frequently under-utilized, servers to be transfered into "virtual machines" (VMs).  This approach allows the consolidation of large numbers (10-100) of existing computers onto a single physical system.  Among other benefits, virtualization has been praised for its ability to "green" the datacenter, resulting in a massive reduction in the hardware and electrical power and required for modern computing facilities.This grant is in support of a small virtualization testbed.  Our research goup is investigating low-level services that enhance virtualized environments.  We propose to use this testbed for two purposes: First, we intend to host live server applications that are otherwise running on their own physical machines in our department.  This will allow us to perform a long-term study of real application workloads in a virtualized environment, and to provide real consumers for the virtualization services for storage and high-availability that we have developed over the past year.  Second, this testbed will act as a development facility for ongoing work in our research program.  In particular, the hardware offers newly released virtualization and storage features that are not currently available to us for study.