Title
Exploring Live Cloud Migration on Amazon EC2
Abstract
Cloud users may decide to live migrate their virtual machines from a public cloud provider to another due to a lower cost or ceasing operations. Currently, it is not possible to install a second virtualization platform on public cloud infrastructure (IaaS) because nested virtualization and hardwareassisted virtualization are disabled by default. As a result, cloud users' VMs are tightly coupled to providers IaaS hindering live migration of VMs to different providers. This paper introduces LivCloud, a solution to live cloud migration. LivCloud is designed based on well-established criteria to live migrate VMs across various cloud IaaS with minimal interruption to the services hosted on these VMs. The paper discusses the basic design of LivCloud which consists of a Virtual Machine manager and IPsec VPN tunnel introduced for the first time within this environment. It is also the first time that the migrated VM architecture (64-bit & 32-bit) is taken into consideration. In this study, we evaluate the implementation of the basic design of LivCloud on Amazon EC2 C4 instance. This instance has a compute optimized instance and has high performance processors. In particular we explore three developed options. Theses options are being tested for the first time on EC2 to change the value of the EC2 instance's control registers. Changing the values of the registers will significantly help enable nested virtualization on Amazon EC2.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/FiCloud.2017.20
2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtualization,Virtual Machine,Network Virtualization,Nested Virtualization,Live Cloud Migration,Cloud infrastructure
Virtualization,IPsec,Architecture,Virtual machine,Live migration,Computer science,Server,Control register,Operating system,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-2075-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ibrahim Ejdayid A. Mansour100.34
Hamid Bouchachia262.84
Kendra C. Cooper313524.90