A performance study of live VM migration technologies: VMotion vs XenMotion

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作者：

Feng, Xiujie ^{[1
]}

Tang, Jianxiong ^{[1
]}

Luo, Xuan ^{[1
]}

Jin, Yaohui ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, State Key Lab Adv Opt Commun Syst & Networks, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China

来源：

NETWORK ARCHITECTURES, MANAGEMENT, AND APPLICATIONS IX | 2011年 / 8310卷

关键词：

live virtual machine migration; cloud computing; virtualization;

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中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Due to the growing demand of flexible resource management for cloud computing services, researches on live virtual machine migration have attained more and more attention(1). Live migration of virtual machine across different hosts has been a powerful tool to facilitate system maintenance, load balancing, fault tolerance and so on. In this paper, we use a measurement-based approach to compare the performance of two major live migration technologies under certain network conditions, i.e., VMotion and XenMotion. The results show that VMotion generates much less data transferred than XenMotion when migrating identical VMs. However, in network with moderate packet loss and delay, which are typical in a VPN (virtual private network) scenario used to connect the data centers, XenMotion outperforms VMotion in total migration time. We hope that this study can be helpful in choosing suitable virtualization environments for data center administrators and optimizing existing live migration mechanisms.

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