Title
Fast Local VM Migration Against Hypervisor Corruption
Abstract
Virtual machine migration is an established technique for tolerating hardware faults affecting the virtualization infrastructure. Normally migration is performed between different physical hosts and hypervisors, which requires the memory state to be eventually sent over the network, thereby causing performance degradation in the migrated and co-located virtual machines, particularly when the migrated VMs are running IO-and memory-heavy workloads. Since most of the hardware faults are transient and can be recovered from by refreshing the affected component, we propose and evaluate a technique for migrating virtual machines over the same physical host almost instantly and with no overhead, by avoiding memory copy and taking advantage of Intel EPT's inner workings. This technique can be employed for refreshing the VMs' state held by the hypervisor with a lower VM downtime and performance overhead than what would be possible using traditional live migration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EDCC.2019.00028
2019 15th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtualization,Virtual machine migration,cloud computing,hardware faults,dependability
Virtualization,Dependability,Virtual machine,Computer science,Live migration,Hypervisor,Downtime,Operating system,Corruption,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2641-810X
978-1-7281-3930-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frederico Cerveira1133.62
Raul Barbosa211019.08
Henrique Madeira31307122.00