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Comparison of VM Live Migration Process Impacts on QoS of Web Server Hosted in Cloud

by Matheus Torquato
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 137 - Number 13
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Matheus Torquato
10.5120/ijca2016909039

Matheus Torquato . Comparison of VM Live Migration Process Impacts on QoS of Web Server Hosted in Cloud. International Journal of Computer Applications. 137, 13 ( March 2016), 5-10. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016909039

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2016909039,
author = { Matheus Torquato },
title = { Comparison of VM Live Migration Process Impacts on QoS of Web Server Hosted in Cloud },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { March 2016 },
volume = { 137 },
number = { 13 },
month = { March },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 5-10 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume137/number13/24333-2016909039/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016909039 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%P 5-10
%D 2016
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Virtual Machine (VM) Live Migration improves system manageability through VMs rearrangement in their physical hosts. System managers can redistribute VMs to tackle different challenges as: VMs consolidation for energy consumption reduction, load balancing and software rejuvenation. VM live migration consists in successive transfers of memory pages from one host to another. Thus, system capacity planning may consider VM live migration overhead. This paper presents impacts of VM live migration operations on system performance of different RAM-sized VMs (512MB, 1GB and 2GB). These experiments aims to observe how RAM size changes can affect responsiveness and reliability of a Web Server hosted on a single VM. The experiment has external client which sends web requests in a constant rate through Autobench (httperf) benchmark tool. This benchmark tool provides results of Web Server errors and response time during VM live migration process. Experiments results also consider network throughput during VM live migration. The results presents that network overhead due to VM live migration causes major system performance degradation in VMs with more amount of RAM. Therefore, this paper results may be useful for managers to consider VM live migration impacts in capacity planning.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

VM Live Migration Cloud Computing Performance Web Server