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Virtual Machines' Migration for Cloud Computing

Authors:
Mohamed Riduan Abid
Karima Kaddouri
Moulay Driss El Ouadghiri
Driss Benhaddou

Keywords: Virtual machines; Cloud computing; Live migration; Soft migration

Abstract:
Virtualization is strongly emerging back as a fundamental Cloud Computing (CC) technology enabler whereby CC services are mainly provided via the instantiation of Virtual Machines (VMs). These instantiations follow a stochastic pattern, which is mainly dictated by the nature of the CC services requests and Cloud "elasticity". Consequently, a load-balancer emerges as indispensable to intervene in situations where VMs need to be dynamically migrated from a data center site to another in order to sustain optimal CC operation. In this paper, we briefly survey available VM migration techniques, delineate their pros and cons, and shed further light into the novel aspects to consider when approaching, these VM migration techniques, from a CC perspective, e.g., considering Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In addition, we propose a novel VM migration scheme (soft-migration) inspired from mobile communication.

Pages: 97 to 102

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-607-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018