Wide-area virtual machine migration as resilience mechanism

Andreas Fischer, Ali Fessi, Georg Carle, Hermann De Meer

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Abstract

The resilience of services in the Internet has become an important issue and is expected to become even more important in the future. Virtualization is one of the means which can be deployed for resilience purposes. In this paper we follow a systematic approach to the use of virtualization to increase the resilience of network services. First, we provide an analysis of the potential failures of services running within Virtual Machines (VM) and how VM migration or replication can be used to address these failures. Then, we address the problem of re-establishing connectivity between a service and its clients upon successful migration, by leveraging results from mobility research. A special focus is given to wide-area VM migration, since it is considered as the solution for some difficult failures, e.g., large-scale failures due to natural disasters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 30th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops, SRDS 2011
Pages72-77
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 30th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops, SRDS 2011 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 4 Oct 20117 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
ISSN (Print)1060-9857

Conference

Conference2011 30th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops, SRDS 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period4/10/117/10/11

Keywords

  • Network Resilience
  • Network Virtualization
  • Virtual Machine Migration
  • Wide-Area Migration

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