Large Scale Management of Distributed Systems

th This volume presents the proceedings of the 17 IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2006), which was held rd th in Dublin, Ireland during October 23 to 25 , 2006. In line with its reputation as one of the pre-eminent fora for the discussion and debate of advances of distributed systems management, the 2006 iteration of DSOM brought together an international audience of researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia. th DSOM 20