Advances, Systems and Applications
Table 11 Comparison of Soft page aware VM migration approaches
From: A critical survey of live virtual machine migration techniques
Approach | Objective | Technique | Performance metrics | Hypervisor /Simulator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hines et al. [63]-2009 | Mitigate the network faults | Propose different pre-paging strategies and eliminate the transfer of free memory pages in both pre-copy and post-copy | Reducing the number of pages transferred and total migration time | Xen 3.2.1 |
Hines and Gopalan [64]-2009 | Compare post-copy and pre-copy | Adaptive pre-paging and DSB mechanism | Network-bound page faults reduced up to 21% and transmission of free memory pages using DSB mechanism was also avoided | Xen 3.2.1 |
Koto et al. [110]-2012 | Tracks and avoids the transfer of soft pages | Sonic Migration examines memory pages when live migration is triggered, and marks soft pages to avoid transferring them | Migration time is up to 68.3% shorter than that for Xen-based live migration and reduces network traffic by up to 83.9% | Xen 4.1.0 |