Advances, Systems and Applications
From: A critical survey of live virtual machine migration techniques
Approach | Objective | Technique | Performance metrics | Hypervisor /Simulator |
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Jin et al. [102]-2009 | MECOM | Adaptive zero-aware compression algorithm | Reduce total migration time, downtime and total transferred data on average by 32%, 27.1%, 68.8% respectively | Xen3.1.0 |
Hacking and Hudzia [104]-2009 | Transparent migration of large scale applications | VM to use using delta compression algorithm for memory transfer as well as the introduction of an adaptive warm up phase | Increased data transfer performance and reduced service downtime | KVM |
Svärd et al. [36]-2011 | Optimizing the network bandwidth utilization | Delta compression techniques | Performance is improved by reducing the page dirty rate or through increased network throughput | QEMU/ KVM 0.11.5 |
Svärd et al. [105]-2011 | Optimize total migration time and service downtime through improved network performance | Transfer the delta compressed pages with weight based priority | Reduces total downtime, migration time and increase migration throughput | KVM 0.13.0 |
Sahni and Varma [106]-2012 | Reduce the number of network page faults | Present a hybrid approach | Minimize transferred data and total migration time | KVM/QEMU |
Hu et al. [28]-2013 | Improving the VM memory transfer rate | Hybrid memory copy and delta compression mechanism | Increase downtime from 3s to 3.8s w.r.t. pre-copy and decrease total migration time from 235s to 95s w.r.t. pre-copy for ERP system | Xen 3.4.4 |
Jin et al. [103]-2014 | MECOM: Live migration of VM by adaptively compressing memory pages | Adaptive zero-aware compression algorithm | Reduce transfer data, total migration time, and downtime reduce total migration time, downtime and total transferred data on average by 32%, 27.1%, 68.8% respectively | Xen 3.1.0 |