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On the Necessity of VM Migration: Simulation on Datacenter Network Resources

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With the exception of solid state drive, the network I/O generally increases at a faster pace than the I/O capacity of hard disk drive. If the gap between the disk I/O and the network I/O continues to grow, current technologies that are tuned to current state may not be the optimal choices anymore. One of such technologies may be virtual machine migration (VMM). VMM is one of the most frequently mentioned operations in datacenters. One of the purposes of VMM is to ensure the data used by the virtual machine (VM) and the VM using the data are close to each other. However, if the VMMs require longer period of freeze time, VMM under certain situations may be unnecessary. In this paper, a series of simulations are carried out to show that VMM of some cases may not be necessary with enhanced network capacity.

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  1. It may be larger under some particular circumstances.

  2. In other words, migration among non-identical machines require much more complicated procedures.

  3. “Dirtying” indicates memory changing, which contaminates already-sent information.

  4. Acknowledgement refers to the reply to a packet to inform the sender that the receiver has properly received the packet.

  5. \(\mu \) of intermediate nodes needs to be greater than or equal to that of the source node.

  6. Source: Top of rack—Destination.

  7. When \(n = 2\), it is binary. When \(n = 16\), it is hexadecimal, and etc.

  8. In BCube, a switch and a server is occupied for each added hop. Therefore, the number of hops in a technical sense is twice what we have calculated.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2013R1A1A2010388).

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    Jongtack Jung, Kangho Kim & Hwangnam Kim

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Jung, J., Kim, K. & Kim, H. On the Necessity of VM Migration: Simulation on Datacenter Network Resources. Wireless Pers Commun 86, 1797–1812 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3105-8

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