Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Cost of Virtual Machine Live Migration in Clouds: A Performance Evaluation
CloudCom '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing
Communications of the ACM
Exploiting Data Deduplication to Accelerate Live Virtual Machine Migration
CLUSTER '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
Predicting the Performance of Virtual Machine Migration
MASCOTS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Xen Live Migration with Slowdown Scheduling Algorithm
PDCAT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies
Evaluation of delta compression techniques for efficient live migration of large virtual machines
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Workload-aware live storage migration for clouds
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Virt-LM: a benchmark for live migration of virtual machine
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance engineering
Efficient Storage Synchronization for Live Migration in Cloud Infrastructures
PDP '11 Proceedings of the 2011 19th International Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Power Consumption of Virtual Machine Live Migration in Clouds
CMC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Third International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing
Performance Modeling of Virtual Machine Live Migration
CLOUD '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing
ME2: Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machine with Memory Exploration and Encoding
CLUSTER '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
Efficient live migration of virtual machines using shared storage
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Introspection-based memory de-duplication and migration
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
VMScatter: migrate virtual machines to many hosts
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Optimizing virtual machine live storage migration in heterogeneous storage environment
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
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Virtual machine (VM) live migration is a critical feature for managing virtualized environments, enabling dynamic load balancing, consolidation for power management, preparation for planned maintenance, and other management features. However, not all virtual machine live migration is created equal. Variants include memory migration, which relies on shared backend storage between the source and destination of the migration, and storage migration, which migrates storage state as well as memory state. We have developed an automated testing framework that measures important performance characteristics of live migration, including total migration time, the time a VM is unresponsive during migration, and the amount of data transferred over the network during migration. We apply this testing framework and present the results of studying live migration, both memory migration and storage migration, in various virtualization systems including KVM, XenServer, VMware, and Hyper-V. The results provide important data to guide the migration decisions of both system administrators and autonomic cloud management systems.