On improvement of cloud virtual machine availability with virtualization fault tolerance mechanism

Proceedings - 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 122-129

  Yang, Chao Tung ^a   Chou, Wei Li ^a   Hsu, Ching Hsien ^b   Cuzzocrea, Alfredo ^c  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; High Availability; Virtualization; Virtualization Fault Tolerance (VFT)

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER-BASED SYSTEMS; COMMON STRATEGY; COMPUTING RESOURCE; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; HIGH AVAILABILITY; LOCAL COMPUTATION; MANAGEMENT TOOL; OPEN-SOURCE; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SCALE-UP; SINGLE SERVER; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84863124428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2011.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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