TY - GEN
T1 - Wide-area virtual machine migration as resilience mechanism
AU - Fischer, Andreas
AU - Fessi, Ali
AU - Carle, Georg
AU - De Meer, Hermann
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Network Resilience
KW - Network Virtualization
KW - Virtual Machine Migration
KW - Wide-Area Migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83255189516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SRDSW.2011.16
DO - 10.1109/SRDSW.2011.16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83255189516
SN - 9780769544519
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
SP - 72
EP - 77
BT - Proceedings - 2011 30th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops, SRDS 2011
T2 - 2011 30th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops, SRDS 2011
Y2 - 4 October 2011 through 7 October 2011
ER -