The String-to-String Correction Problem
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Optimizing the migration of virtual computers
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Aspects of cache memory and instruction buffer performance
Aspects of cache memory and instruction buffer performance
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache
FAST '03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Seamless live migration of virtual machines over the MAN/WAN
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Live wide-area migration of virtual machines including local persistent state
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Live data center migration across WANs: a robust cooperative context aware approach
Proceedings of the 2007 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
Experimental study of virtual machine migration in support of reservation of cluster resources
VTDC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Virtualization technology in distributed computing
The efficacy of live virtual machine migrations over the internet
VTDC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Virtualization technology in distributed computing
Improving the live migration process of large enterprise applications
VTDC '09 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
Suspending, migrating and resuming HPC virtual clusters
Future Generation Computer Systems
The reservoir model and architecture for open federated cloud computing
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing - Volume Part I
Self-management challenges for multi-cloud architectures
ServiceWave'11 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Towards a service-based internet
SecondSite: disaster tolerance as a service
VEE '12 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS conference on Virtual Execution Environments
Efficient provisioning of bursty scientific workloads on the cloud using adaptive elasticity control
Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing Date
A hybrid local storage transfer scheme for live migration of I/O intensive workloads
Proceedings of the 21st international symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
Towards unobtrusive VM live migration for cloud computing platforms
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems
Towards unobtrusive VM live migration for cloud computing platforms
APSys'12 Proceedings of the Third ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific conference on Systems
Towards synchronization of live virtual machines among mobile devices
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Pre-Copy and post-copy VM live migration for memory intensive applications
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel processing workshops
Efficient live migration of virtual machines using shared storage
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Parallelizing live migration of virtual machines
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Behavioral model for cloud aware load and power management
Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Hot topics in cloud services
Tradeoffs in compressing virtual machine checkpoints
Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
A quantitative study of virtual machine live migration
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference
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Despite the widespread support for live migration of Virtual Machines (VMs) in current hypervisors, these have significant shortcomings when it comes to migration of certain types of VMs. More specifically, with existing algorithms, there is a high risk of service interruption when migrating VMs with high workloads and/or over low-bandwidth networks. In these cases, VM memory pages are dirtied faster than they can be transferred over the network, which leads to extended migration downtime. In this contribution, we study the application of delta compression during the transfer of memory pages in order to increase migration throughput and thus reduce downtime. The delta compression live migration algorithm is implemented as a modification to the KVM hypervisor. Its performance is evaluated by migrating VMs running different type of workloads and the evaluation demonstrates a significant decrease in migration downtime in all test cases. In a benchmark scenario the downtime is reduced by a factor of 100. In another scenario a streaming video server is live migrated with no perceivable downtime to the clients while the picture is frozen for eight seconds using standard approaches. Finally, in an enterprise application scenario, the delta compression algorithm successfully live migrates a very large system that fails after migration using the standard algorithm. Finally, we discuss some general effects of delta compression on live migration and analyze when it is beneficial to use this technique.