On the Necessity of VM Migration: Simulation on Datacenter Network Resources

Jongtack Jung; Kangho Kim; Hwangnam Kim

doi:10.1007/s11277-015-3105-8

On the Necessity of VM Migration: Simulation on Datacenter Network Resources

Jongtack Jung, Kangho Kim, Hwangnam Kim

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Abstract

With the exception of solid state drive, the network I/O generally increases at a faster pace than the I/O capacity of hard disk drive. If the gap between the disk I/O and the network I/O continues to grow, current technologies that are tuned to current state may not be the optimal choices anymore. One of such technologies may be virtual machine migration (VMM). VMM is one of the most frequently mentioned operations in datacenters. One of the purposes of VMM is to ensure the data used by the virtual machine (VM) and the VM using the data are close to each other. However, if the VMMs require longer period of freeze time, VMM under certain situations may be unnecessary. In this paper, a series of simulations are carried out to show that VMM of some cases may not be necessary with enhanced network capacity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1797-1812
Number of pages	16
Journal	Wireless Personal Communications
Volume	86
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3105-8
Publication status	Published - 2016 Feb 1

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2013R1A1A2010388).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Keywords

Datacenter
Simulation
Virtual machine migration

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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