Clouds commonly store Virtual Machine (VM) images on networked storage. This poses a serious potential scalability bottleneck as launching a single fresh VM instance requires, at minimum, several hundred MB of network reads. As this bottleneck occurs most severely during read-intensive launching of new VMs, we focus on scalably minimizing time to boot a VM and load its critical applications.
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