TY - GEN
T1 - Towards unobtrusive VM live migration for cloud computing platforms
AU - Koto, Akane
AU - Yamada, Hiroshi
AU - Ohmura, Kei
AU - Kono, Kenji
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Live migration of virtual machines (VMs) is an attractive technique for managing cloud computing platforms such as those for load balancing and maintenance of physical machines. However, the execution of live migration significantly consumes computational resources on the source and destination, thus causing migration noise that degrades the performance of the VMs collocated on these hosts during live migration. Migration noise lowers the total throughput of data centers and make it difficult to carry out live migration to handle unpredictable increases in workload such as sudden request bursts and flash crowds. This paper introduces SonicMigration, which is an approach to shortening total migration time by pruning the VM memory to be transferred. Preliminary experiments with our prototype implemented on Xen 4.1.0 and Linux 2.6.38 show the migration time with our prototype is up to 68.3% shorter than that for Xen-based live migration and it successfully reduces network traffic by up to 83.9%.
AB - Live migration of virtual machines (VMs) is an attractive technique for managing cloud computing platforms such as those for load balancing and maintenance of physical machines. However, the execution of live migration significantly consumes computational resources on the source and destination, thus causing migration noise that degrades the performance of the VMs collocated on these hosts during live migration. Migration noise lowers the total throughput of data centers and make it difficult to carry out live migration to handle unpredictable increases in workload such as sudden request bursts and flash crowds. This paper introduces SonicMigration, which is an approach to shortening total migration time by pruning the VM memory to be transferred. Preliminary experiments with our prototype implemented on Xen 4.1.0 and Linux 2.6.38 show the migration time with our prototype is up to 68.3% shorter than that for Xen-based live migration and it successfully reduces network traffic by up to 83.9%.
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U2 - 10.1145/2349896.2349903
DO - 10.1145/2349896.2349903
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867003399
SN - 9781450316699
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, APSYS'12
BT - Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, APSYS'12
T2 - Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, APSYS 2012
Y2 - 23 July 2012 through 24 July 2012
ER -