Live Migration of Virtual Block Devices

نویسندگان

  • Cristian Zamfir
  • Colin Perkins
  • Peter Dickman
چکیده

Today’s computing environments do not provide support for seamless user mobility. We argue that the support for user mobility between various computing environments can be improved by using live migration of virtual machines and present our initial steps in this direction. We are addressing efficient live migration of persistent storage without leaving residual depencies between migration sites and without sacrificing I/O performance. Our initial implementation shows that migrating virtual block devices is feasable and can occur with unnoticeble downtime. The advantage of using live migration for user mobility that the work environment is never suspended and that network connections are not disturbed and batch jobs can be executed during user’s commutes.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007