Costs of Virtual Machine Live Migration: A Survey

  • Authors:
  • Anja Strunk

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SERVICES '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Eighth World Congress on Services
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Live migration allows moving a continuously running VM from one physical host to another. It provides special benefit for data centers in a variety of scenarios including load balancing, maintenance and power management. However virtual machine live migration leads to performance loss and energy overhead that cannot be ignored in modern data centers, especially if critical business goals are to be met. In this paper we summarize, classify and evaluate current approaches with respect to determine costs of virtual machine live migration.