Live virtual machine migration techniques: Survey and research challenges

Proceedings of the 2013 3rd IEEE International Advance Computing Conference, IACC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 963-969

  Kapil, Divya ^a   Pilli, Emmanuel S ^a   Joshi, Ramesh C ^a  

^a GRAPHIC ERA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Live migration; Post copy; Pre copy; Virtual machine; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

LIVE MIGRATIONS; POST-COPY; PRE-COPY; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAINTENANCE; SURVEYS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84879862545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAdCC.2013.6514357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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