Seamless live migration of virtual machines over the MAN/WAN

Authors
  • C. de Laat
  • J. Mambretti
  • I. Monga
  • B. van Oudenaarde
  • S. Raghunath
  • P.Y. Wang
Publication date 2006
Journal Future Generation Computer Systems
Volume | Issue number 22 | 8
Pages (from-to) 901-907
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
The “VM Turntable” demonstrator at iGRID 2005 pioneered the integration of Virtual Machines (VMs) with deterministic “lightpath” network services across a MAN/WAN. The results provide for a new stage of virtualization—one for which computation is no longer localized within a data center but rather can be migrated across geographical distances, with negligible downtime, transparently to running applications and external clients. A noteworthy data point indicates that a live VM was migrated between Amsterdam, NL and San Diego, USA with just 1–2 s of application downtime. When compared to intra-LAN local migrations, downtime is only about 5–10 times greater despite 1000 times higher round-trip times.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.03.007
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