Karl's Published Papers

Optimal Routing of IP Packets to Multi-Homed Servers

Presented at the 6th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VI) Conference, Long Beach, 19-23 October 1992. (Abstract, PDF)
SLAC-PUB-5895 contains a few last-minute corrections that didn't make it into the proceedings version.

Forecasting Disk Resource Requirements for a Usenet Server

Presented at the 7th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VII) Conference, Monterey, California, 1-5 November 1993. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-6353.
Updates based on data through 1996 from SLAC's news server are also available.

Adventures in the Evolution of a High-Bandwidth Network for Central Servers

Karl L. Swartz, Les Cottrell, Marty Dart
Presented at the 8th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VIII) Conference, San Diego, 19-23 September 1994. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-6567 .

The Brave Little Toaster Meets Usenet

Presented (PPT, HTML) at the 10th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA X) Conference, Chicago, 29 September - 4 October 1996. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-7254 and by NetApp as TR-2000 and TR-3095.

Adding Response Time Measurement of
CIFS File Server Performance to NetBench

Presented (PPT, HTML) at the USENIX Windows NT Workshop, Seattle, 11-13 August 1997. (Proceedings, Abstract, HTML, PDF)
Also presented (PPT, HTML) at the Large Scale System Administration of NT Workshop, Seattle, 14-16 August 1997.

Various NetApp Technical Reports -

Migrating to a Web Filer (TR-3012)

CIFS Filer Performance Measured with NetBench (TR-3015)
Karl L. Swartz, Andy Watson

Using NetApp Filers with NetNews (TR-3016) (Not released.)

F630 Filer Performance Measured with NetBench (TR-3019)
Karl L. Swartz, Andy Watson

F630 NetBench Update (TR-3025)

Multiple Volumes and Multiple RAID Groups on NetApp Filers (TR-3027)

Transparent, Scalable, Fail-Safe Web Caching (TR-3033)
Peter Danzig and Karl L. Swartz

NetCache NNTP (NetNews) Caching (TR-3059)

Selected 3PAR Technical Papers -

Datacenter Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Technology and 3PAR Utility Storage

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Best Practices Using 3PAR Utility Storage

Maintaining High Storage Utilization with Oracle ASM Storage Reclamation Utility and 3PAR Thin Persistence

3PAR Fast RAID: High Performance Without Compromise

Simplifying Storage Administration with 3PAR Autonomic Groups