Demo: Benchmarking live migration performance of two trendy virtualization technologies

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Abstract

Live migration is a technology that seamlessly moves a virtualized running service between hosts, which allows services to rapidly adapt to changes. The principal of this technology is that the application downtime is small enough so the end user is not aware of the migration. The two most used off-the-shelf technologies for virtualization are docker for containers and KVM for virtual machines. However, there is still a lack of understanding of its performance in live migration. In this paper, we present a demonstrator that migrates different applications using docker and KVM under different conditions that can be configured manually. The audience will be able to select an application from a pool of applications and the conditions of the migration. Then, the migration will be triggered and the audience will observe different statistics such as the migration time, the downtime, and the resources consumed. Finally, they will be able to compare it to previous runs and observe the impact of the conditions selected.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1087-1088
Number of pages2
ISBN (electronic)9781728186955
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Abbreviated titleINFOCOM 2020
Conference number39
Duration6 - 9 July 2020
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationOnline
CityToronto
CountryCanada

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891198

Keywords

Keywords

  • Docker container, KVM, Live migration, Performance benchmark, Testbed evaluation, Virtual machine