A live storage migration mechanism over wan and its performance evaluation

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing, VTDC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 67-74

  Hirofuchi, Takahiro ^a   Nakada, Hidemoto ^a   Ogawa, Hirotaka ^a   Itoh, Satoshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Live migration; Storage; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; DATA CENTERS; DISK IMAGES; I/O MECHANISMS; I/O PERFORMANCE; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; LIVE MIGRATION; MIGRATION MECHANISMS; NETWORK LATENCIES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRACTICAL USE; PREFETCHES; REMOTE NODE; SHARED STORAGE; STORAGE; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WAN ENVIRONMENT;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DEGRADATION; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 70049092824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555336.1555348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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