WMCSA '02 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Optimizing the migration of virtual computers
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Seamless live migration of virtual machines over the MAN/WAN
Future Generation Computer Systems - IGrid 2005: The global lambda integrated facility
Fast transparent migration for virtual machines
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Constructing services with interposable virtual hardware
NSDI'04 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 1
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
Post-copy based live virtual machine migration using adaptive pre-paging and dynamic self-ballooning
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
High performance virtual machine migration with RDMA over modern interconnects
CLUSTER '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
Live migration of virtual machine based on full system trace and replay
Proceedings of the 18th ACM international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Toward dependency-aware live virtual machine migration
VTDC '09 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
Black-box and gray-box strategies for virtual machine migration
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Informed live migration strategies of virtual machines for cluster load balancing
NPC'11 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing
How a consumer can measure elasticity for cloud platforms
ICPE '12 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
A fine-grained performance-based decision model for virtualization application solution
TPCTC'11 Proceedings of the Third TPC Technology conference on Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization
VC-Migration: Live Migration of Virtual Clusters in the Cloud
GRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Grid Computing
Resource availability based performance benchmarking of virtual machine migrations
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
A quantitative study of virtual machine live migration
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference
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Virtualization technology has been widely applied in data centers and IT infrastructures, with advantages of server consolidation and live migration. Through live migration, data centers could flexibly move virtual machines among different physical machines to balance workloads, reduce energy consumption and enhance service availability. Today's data centers can grow to a huge scale. This implies that frequent live migration would be desirable for the economic use of hardware resources. Then, the performance of the live migration strategy will be an issue. So, we need a reliant evaluation method to choose the software and hardware environments that will produce the best live migration performance. However, there is not a complete live migration benchmark available currently. In addition, the existing evaluation methodologies select different metrics, different workloads and different test means. Thus, it is difficult to compare their results. In this paper we first survey the current research and their evaluation methods on live migration. We then summarize the critical issues for the live migration evaluation and also raise other unreported potential problems. We propose our solutions and present an implementation in our live migration benchmark -- Virt-LM. This is a benchmark for comparing live migration performance among different software and hardware environments in a data center scenario. We detail its design and provide some experimental results to validate its effectiveness.