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[email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT timization, and iii) policy-based provisioning [15, 7]. Typ- The complexity and scale of today’s cloud storage systems ically, this is achieved by explicitly decoupling the control is growing fast. In response to these challenges, Software- plane from the data plane at the storage layer. Defined Storage (SDS) has recently become a prime candi- Automation enables a datacenter administrator to easily date to simplify storage management in the cloud. provision resources and services to tenants. This includes This article presents IOStack: The first SDS architecture the virtualization of storage services (volumes, filesystems) for object stores (OpenStack Swift). At the control plane, on top of performance-specific servers and network fabrics the provisioning of SDS services to tenants is made accord- orchestrated by the SDS system. Optimization refers to the ing to a set of policies managed via a high-level DSL. Policies seamless ability to automatically allocate resources to meet may target storage automation and/or specific SLA objec- the performance goals of the different workloads [7].