Live virtual machine migration techniques: Survey and research challenges

Author

Kapil, D. ; Pilli, Emmanuel S. ; Joshi, R.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Graphic Era Univ., Dehradun, India

fYear

2013

fDate

22-23 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

963

Lastpage

969

Abstract

Cloud is an emerging technology in the world of information technology and is built on the key concept of virtualization. Virtualization separates hardware from software and has benefits of server consolidation and live migration. Live migration is a useful tool for migrating OS instances across distant physical of data centers and clusters. It facilitates load balancing, fault management, low-level system maintenance and reduction in energy consumption. In this paper, we survey the major issues of virtual machine live migration. We discuss how the key performance metrics e.g downtime, total migration time and transferred data are affected when a live virtual machine is migrated over WAN, with heavy workload or when VMs are migrated together. We classify the techniques and compare the various techniques in a particular class.

Keywords

cloud computing; operating systems (computers); virtual machines; virtualisation; wide area networks; OS instance migration; WAN; cloud technology; data center; data cluster; data transfer metric; downtime metric; energy consumption reduction; fault management; load balancing; low-level system maintenance; operating systems; total migration time metric; virtual machine migration technique; virtualization concept; wide area network; Cloud computing; Measurement; Operating systems; Servers; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Virtualization; Cloud computing; Live migration; Post-copy; Pre-copy; Virtual machine; Virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2013 IEEE 3rd International

Conference_Location

Ghaziabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4527-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAdCC.2013.6514357

Filename

6514357