File systems were originally designed for hosts with only one disk. Over the past 20 years, a number of increasingly complicated changes have optimized the performance of file systems on a single disk. Over the same time, storage systems have advanced on their own, separated from file systems by the narrow block interface. Storage systems have increasingly employed parallelism and virtualizatio...

The study aims to develop methods for automating network management by analyzing its virtual counterpart. paper substantiates the relevance of this approach, identifies advantages and disadvantages, highlights existing problems, suggests ways solve them. As a result, effectiveness virtualization was shown example an experimental network.