Live VM Migration Across Cloud Data Centers
Suhib Bani Melhem, Anjali Agarwal, Mustafa Daraghmeh, Nishith Goel, Marzia Zaman · 2017
Live VM migration is a technique that consists of a selection process and a migration process to migrate a VM from one host to another in the same data center without changing the IP address, or in a different data center with necessity to the VM to get a new IP address. The changing of IP address results into a mobility problem, which may render the service unreachable. In this paper, we propose a system model that selects data center randomly for VM placement while reducing this IP address reconfiguration. A new metric is proposed to indicate number of users that need IP reconfiguration. We extended CloudSim to simulate our work to identify the number of IP reconfigurations required for VM migration across the data centers on random workload.