NeST:  Network Storage
Flexible Commodity Storage Appliances

New worlds, new promises

New worlds, new problems

Enter NeST

Research meets production

Very exciting intersection

Very exciting intersection

Outline

Multi-protocol support

Why not JBOS?

Dangerous migrations

Wasted migrations

Full migration support

Three way matching

Three way ClassAds

Conclusions

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Design structure

Lot management overhead

NeST v JBOS, solo

NeST v JBOS, team

NeST proportional sharing