A survey on virtual machine migration and server consolidation frameworks for cloud data centers

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-25

  Ahmad, Raja Wasim ^a   Gani, Abdullah ^a   Hamid, Siti Hafizah Ab ^a   Shiraz, Muhammad ^a   Yousafzai, Abdullah ^a   Xia, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Data center; QoS; Server consolidation; Virtualization; VM migration

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FAULT TOLERANCE; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; POWER MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DATA CENTERS; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATIONS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VM MIGRATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84924980779     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.02.002     Document Type: Review

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