Live migration of virtual machines in the homogeneous cloud

Abstract

Due to the large scale advancements and applications in cloud technology, almost all the organizations prefer to use cloud computing rather than traditional storage mechanisms. Huge datacenters have been widely used to host cloud services, which are typically allocated to different virtual machines (VMs) through which resources multiplexing across shared physical servers. Most of the existing studies only focus on power-saving and load scheduling scenarios. Inorder to meet the Service-Level-Agreement (SLA) by the cloud applications, this paper proposes an efficient protocol for live migration of VMs in homogenous cloud. This protocol will find suitable VMs from the sources as well as host PM to which the migration should be done. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed live migration technique is compared with the traditional FFD algorithm.