Remus: High availability via asynchronous virtual machine replication

5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-174

  Cully, Brendan ^a   Lefebvre, Geoffrey ^a   Meyer, Dutch ^a   Feeley, Mike ^a   Hutchinson, Norm ^a   Warfield, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Citrix Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; NETWORK SECURITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

HARDWARE FAILURES; HIGH AVAILABILITY; LEGACY APPLICATIONS; NETWORK CONNECTION; REPLICATED SYSTEMS; RUNNING SYSTEMS; SPECIAL PURPOSE HARDWARE; SPECULATIVE EXECUTION;

AVAILABILITY;

EID: 85065163256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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