Paper Info
Title
Virtual machine migration in cloud data centers: a review, taxonomy, and open research issues
Abstract
Virtualization efficiently manages the ever-increasing demand for storage, computing, and networking resources in large-scale Cloud Data Centers. Virtualization attains multifarious resource management objectives including proactive server maintenance, load balancing, pervasive service availability, power management, and fault tolerance by virtual machine (VM) migration. VM migration is a resource-intensive operation as it constantly requires adequate CPU cycles, memory capacity, system cache, and network bandwidth. Consequently, it adversely affects the performance of running applications and cannot be entirely overlooked in contemporary data centers, particularly when user SLA and critical business goals are to be met. The unavailability of a comprehensive survey on VM migration schemes that covers various VM migration aspects such as migration patterns, sequence, application performance, bandwidth optimization, and migration granularity has motivated this review of existing schemes. This paper reviews state-of-the-art live and non-live VM migration schemes. Through an extensive literature review, a detailed thematic taxonomy is proposed for the categorization of VM migration schemes. Critical aspects and related features of current VM migration schemes are inspected through detailed qualitative investigation. We extract significant parameters from existing literature to discuss the commonalities and variances among VM migration schemes. Finally, open research issues and challenges with VM migration that require further consideration to develop optimal VM migration schemes in Cloud Data Centers are briefly addressed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11227-015-1400-5
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtualization,VM migration,Post-copy,Pre-copy,Data Centers
Virtualization,Open research,Resource management,Virtual machine,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Cache,Parallel computing,Computer network,Data migration,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
71
7
0920-8542
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.57
98
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raja Wasim Ahmad117810.30
Abdullah Gani2188791.22
Siti Hafizah Ab. Hamid315711.74
Muhammad Shiraz441719.28
Feng Xia52013153.69
Sajjad A. Madani668223.38