On the necessity of VM migration: Simulation on datacenter network resources

Jongtack Jung, Hwangnam Kim

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Abstract

Currently, the network I/O is greater than the disk I/O. Even further, network I/O capacity increases at a faster rate than the capacity of hard disk I/O. If the gap between the disk I/O and the network I/O continues to grow, current technologies may not be the optimum choices anymore. Virtual machine migration is one of the most frequently mentioned operations in datacenters. One of the purposes of virtual machine migrations is to ensure the data used by the virtual machine and the running virtual machine are close together. However, if there is always enough network capacity in a datacenter, the locality migration might not be necessary. Virtual machine migrations require comparably long period of freeze time, and by showing no migration does not degrade the overall performance under some situations, the use of virtual machine migration under certain situation may be shown unnecessary. In this paper, the simulation is carried out to show that with network capacity enhanced, virtual machine migrations of some cases may not be necessary.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2014 - 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages261-266
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781479934942
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event6th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2014 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 2014 Jul 82014 Jul 11

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Other

Other6th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period14/7/814/7/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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