HybridStore: A cost-efficient, high-performance storage system combining SSDs and HDDs

Youngjae Kim, Aayush Gupta, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Piotr Berman, Anand Sivasubramaniam

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Abstract

Unlike the use of DRAM for caching or buffering, certain idiosyncrasies of SSDs make their integration into existing systems non-trivial. Flash memory suffers from limits on its reliability, is an order of magnitude more expensive than the HDD, and can sometimes be as slow as the HDD (due to excessive garbage collection (GC) induced by high intensity of random writes). Given these trade-offs between HDDs and SSDs in terms of cost, performance, and lifetime, the current consensus among several storage experts is to view SSDs not as a replacement for HDD but rather as a complementary device within the high performance storage hierarchy. We design and evaluate such a hybrid system called Hybrid Store to provide: (a) Hybrid Plan: improved capacity planning technique to administrators with the overall goal of operating within cost-budgets and (b) HybridDyn: improved performance/lifetime guarantees during episodes of deviations from expected workloads through two novel mechanisms: write-regulation and fragmentation busting. As an illustrative example of HybridStore's efficacy, Hybrid Plan is able to find the most cost-effective storage configuration for a large scale workload of Microsoft Research and suggest one MLC SSD with ten 7.2K RPM HDDs instead of fourteen 7.2K RPM HDDs only. HybridDyn is able to reduce the average response time for an enterprise scale random-write dominant workload by about 71% as compared to a HDD-based system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2011
Pages227-236
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2011 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Jul 25 2011Jul 27 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems - Proceedings

Other

Other19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2011
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period7/25/117/27/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation

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