An overview of virtual machine live migration techniques

Artan Mazrekaj (South East European University)
Shkelzen Nuza (Dokuz Eylul University)
Mimoza Zatriqi (University of Prishtina)
Vlera Alimehaj (University of Prishtina)

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 9, No 5: October 2019

In a cloud computing the live migration of virtual machines shows a process of moving a running virtual machine from source physical machine to the destination, considering the CPU, memory, network, and storage states. Various performance metrics are tackled such as, downtime, total migration time, performance degradation, and amount of migrated data, which are affected when a virtual machine is migrated. This paper presents an overview and understanding of virtual machine live migration techniques, of the different works in literature that consider this issue, which might impact the work of professionals and researchers to further explore the challenges and provide optimal solutions.