• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.73-85
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• 2002

A new architecture coiled the Storage Area Network(SAN) was developed in response to the requirements of high availability of data, scalable growth, and system performance, In order to use SAN more efficiently, most SAN operating system support storage virtualization concepts that allow users to view physical storage devices attached to SAN as a large volume virtually. A logical volume manager plays a key role in storage virtualization. It realizes the storage virtualization by mapping logical addresses to physical addresses, In this paper, we design and implement an efficient and flexible mapping method for logical volume manager. Additionally, to aid flexible mapping, we also design and implement free space management method, The mapping method in this paper supports a snapshot that preserves a volume image at certain time and on-line reorganization to allow users to add or remove storage devices to SAN even while the system is running.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.718-731
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• 2003

SAN(Storage Area Network) was developed in response to the requirements of high availability of data, scalable growth, and system performance. In order to use the SAN more efficiently, most of the SAN operating software supports storage virtualization concepts that allow users to view physical storage devices of the SAN as a large volume. A logical volume manager plays a key role in storage virtualization. It realizes the storage virtualization by mapping logical addresses to physical addresses. In this paper, we design and implement an efficient and flexible mapping method for the logical volume manager. Additionally we also design and implement a free space management method for flexible mapping. Our mapping method supports a snapshot that preserves a volume image at certain time and on-line reorganization to allow users to add or remove storage devices to and from the SAN even while the system is running. To justify our mapping method, we compare it with the mapping method of the GFS (Global File System) through various experiments.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.71-85
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• 2011

The most important factors of Electronic approval system of battle management system are availability and reliability. Therefore, the electronic approval system uses a SAN(storage area network) to construct the reliable server and storage. In this paper, we analyze the security vulnerabilities of the SAN storage that stores the critical military information in the electronic approval system of battle management system. Based on the analysis, we verify the possibility of information leakage by the inside attackers through the scenario-based experiment. And we finally propose a new storage encryption algorithm on the basis of user's role that can prevent the leakage of information by the inside attackers.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.93-103
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• 2002

The combination of data warehousing and Internet technology produces a new concept - web warehousing. Due to the availability of web technologies and the need to make prompt decisions with timely information, web warehousing is emerging as a key strategic business weapon. Yet despite the many promising benefits of web warehousing, researchers have also identified several challenges, including scalability and availability. With the rise of the Internet and data centric computing applications, the use of new Storage Area Network (SAN) technology has been spotlighted for the possibility of a new data repository for web warehousing. In this article, the two new concepts of web warehousing and storage area networks are introduced. In particular, a SAN is discussed in detail as an alternative data repository to overcome the current limitations of web warehousing.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.375-384
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• 2001

The shared disk file systems use a technique known as file system journaling to support recovery of metadata on the SAN(Storage Area Network). In the existing journaling technique, the metadata that is dirtied by one host must be updated to disk space before some hosts access it. The system performance is decreased because the disk access number is increased. In this paper, we describe a new recovery technique using a global buffer to decrease disk I/O. It transmits the dirtied metadata into the other hosts through Fibre Channel network on the SAN instead of disk I/O and supports recovery of a critical data by journaling a data as well as metadata.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.99-113
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• 2004

A new architecture called SAN(Storage Area Network) was developed in response to the requirements of high availability of data, scalable growth, and system performance. In order to use SAN more efficiently, most of SAN operating softwares support storage virtualization concepts that allow users to view physical storage devices attached to SAN as a large volume virtually h logical volume manager plays a key role in storage virtualization. It realizes the storage virtualization by mapping logical addresses to physical addresses. A logical volume manager also supports a snapshot that preserves a volume image at certain time and on-line reorganization to allow users to add/remove storage devices to/from SAN even while the system is running. To support the snapshot and the on-line reorganization, most logical volume managers have used table based mapping methods. However, it is very difficult to manage mapping table because the mapping table is large in proportion to a storage capacity. In this paper, we design and implement an efficient and flexible hybrid mapping method based on mathematical equations. The mapping method in this paper supports a snapshot and on-line reorganization. The proposed snapshot and on-line reorganization are performed on the reserved area which is separated from data area of a volume. Due to this strategy normal I/O operations are not affected by snapshot and reorganization. Finally, we show the superiority of our proposed mapping method through various experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.520-532
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• 2002

A new architecture called the Storage Area Network(SAN) was developed in response to the requirements of high availability of data scalable growth and system performance. In order to use SAN more efficiently, most SAN operating systems support storage virtualization concepts that allow users to view physical storage devices attached to SAN as a large volume virtually. A logical volume manager plays a key role in storage virtualization. In order for mapping managers to process snap-shots and reorganizations, an efficient freespace manager is required, and it affects the overall performance of logical volume. In this thesis, we design and implement a freespace manager for logical volume manager. The freespace manager efficiently allocates physical blocks for logical blocks. Also, it processes space allocation requests for suports snapshots and reorganizations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.520-532
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• 2002

A new architecture called the Storage Area Network(SAN) was developed in response to the requirements of high availability of data, scalable growth, and system performance. In order to use SAN more efficiently, most SAN operating systems support storage virtualization concepts that allow users to view physical storage devices attached to SAN as a large volume virtually. A logical volume manager plays a key role in storage virtualization. In order for mapping managers to process snap-shots and reorganizations, an efficient freespace manager is required, and it affects the overall performance of logical volume. In this thesis, we design and implement a freespace manager for logical volume manager. The freespace manager efficiently allocates physical blocks for logical blocks. Also, it processes space allocation requests for supports snapshots and reorganizations.

• 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.221-229
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• 2005

네트워크 연결형 가상화스토리지 기술의 대표로서 SAN(Storage Area Network)와 NAS(Network Attached Storage) 및 IP SAN이 있다. NAS와 SAN은 시스템 통합, 빠르고 편리한 설치, 중앙 관리, 편리한 백업, 고가용성, 데이터 공유의 장점을 가지고 있다. 현재까지는 SAN 제품들 간 호환성 문제나 투자비용의 문제 등으로 인하여 시장 형성이 빠르지 못하나 SAN 환경에 대한 투자가 증가하고 있다. 그리고 앞으로는 서버 종속적인 가상화스토리지 시스템의 증가세는 둔화되고 NAS 또는 SAN의 가상화스토리지의 성장세가 지속될 것이다. 본 연구에서는 최근의 인터넷 환경으로 인한 컴퓨팅 환경의 변화에 따른 가상화스토리지 시스템에 대한 요구 사항의 분석과 이를 만족하기 위한 스토리지 기술과 네트워크 연결형 가상화스토리지 기술의 NAS와 SAN을 비교하며 네트워크 연결형 가상화스토리지 시스템에 관련된 표준화에 대하여 연구하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.134-145
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• 2004

With rapid growth in the amount of data transferred on the Internet, traditional storage systems have reached the limits of their capacity and performance. SAN (Storage Area Network), which connects hosts to disk with the Fibre Channel switches, provides one of the powerful solutions to scale the data storage and servers. In this environment, the maintenance of data consistency among hosts is an important issue because multiple hosts share the files on disks attached to the SAN. To preserve data consistency, each host can execute the disk I/O whenever disk read and write operations are requested. However, frequent disk I/O requests cause the deterioration of the overall performance of a SAN cluster. In this paper, we introduce a SANtopia global buffer manager to improve the performance of a SAN cluster reducing the number of disk I/Os. We describe the design and algorithms of the SANtopia global buffer manager, which provides a buffer cache sharing mechanism among the hosts in the SAN cluster. Micro-benchmark results to measure the performance of block I/O operations show that the global buffer manager achieves speed-up by the factor of 1.8-12.8 compared with the existing method using disk I/O operations. Also, File system micro-benchmark results show that SANtopia file system with the global buffer manager improves performance by the factor of 1.06 in case of directories and 1.14 in case of files compared with the file system without a global buffer manager.