The design of a practical system for fault-tolerant virtual machines

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 30-39

  Scales, Daniel J ^a   Nelson, Mike ^a   Venkitachalam, Ganesh ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SERVERS;

COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; COMPLETE SYSTEM; DATA BANDWIDTH; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL APPLICATIONS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78650730967     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899928.1899932     Document Type: Article

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