High Performance Virtual Machine Recovery in the Cloud

Valentina Salapura, Richard Harper

2015

Abstract

In this paper, we outline and illustrate concepts that are essential to achieve fast, highly scalable virtual machine planning and failover at the Virtual Machine (VM) level in a data center containing a large number of servers, VMs, and disks. To illustrate the concepts a solution is implemented and analyzed for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services enterprise cloud. The solution enables at-failover-time planning, and keeps the recovery time within tight service level agreement (SLA) allowed time budgets via parallelization of recovery activities. The initial serial failover time was reduced for an order of magnitude due to parallel VM restart, and to parallel VM restart combined with parallel storage device remapping.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Salapura V. and Harper R. (2015). High Performance Virtual Machine Recovery in the Cloud . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 559-564. DOI: 10.5220/0005493405590564

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer15,
author={Valentina Salapura and Richard Harper},
title={High Performance Virtual Machine Recovery in the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={559-564},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005493405590564},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - High Performance Virtual Machine Recovery in the Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Salapura V.
AU - Harper R.
PY - 2015
SP - 559
EP - 564
DO - 10.5220/0005493405590564