A study on fast, remote live migraton enabling disaster recovery

• Project/Area Number: 25330097
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Hirofuchi Takahiro 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報技術研究部門, 主任研究員 (20462864)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 仮想計算機 / ハイパーバイザ / ライブマイグレーション / ディザスタリカバリ / 仮想マシン / 広域ネットワーク / シミュレーション / 分散システム / 仮想化 / マイグレーション / 仮想マシンモニタ / ページキャッシュ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project studied mechanisms to speed up the live migration of a group of virtual machines to a distant location. It aims at realizing safe server evacuation upon a disaster by exploiting a short period of time of backup power supply. We developed 1) a mechanism to transfer only updated states of a VM to a remote location upon a live migration, which is enabled by periodically sending the states of a VM during normal operation in a best-effort manner; 2) a mechanism to eliminate duplicated data in the data transferred during a live migration; 3) a mechanism that optimizes the scheduling of multiple live migrations to minimize an elapsed time of relocation of whole virtual machines; 4) a simulation mechanism of live migrations of virtual machines.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] INRIA/Ecole des Mine de Nantes(フランス)
• [Journal Article] SimGrid VM: Virtual Machine Support for a Simulation Framework of Distributed Systems (2015)
  • Author(s): Takahiro Hirofuchi, Adrien Lebre, Laurent Pouilloux
  • Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Volume: 99 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-15
  • DOI: 10.1109/tcc.2015.2481422
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Postcopy Live Migration with Guest-Cooperative Page Faults (2015)
  • Author(s): Takahiro Hirofuchi, Isaku Yamahata, Satoshi Itoh
  • Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Volume: E98.D Issue: 12 Pages: 2159-2167
  • DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2015PAP0011
  • NAID: 130005112342
  • ISSN: 0916-8532, 1745-1361
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Fast Live Migration with Small IO Performance Penalty by Exploiting SAN in Parallel (2014)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano, Shinichi Honiden
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Volume: 1 Pages: 40-47
  • DOI: 10.1109/cloud.2014.16
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Evaluating Impact of Live Migration on Data Center Energy Saving (2014)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Shinichi Honiden
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Volume: 1 Pages: 759-762
  • DOI: 10.1109/cloudcom.2014.42
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Design and Implementation of Middleware for Cloud Disaster Recovery via Virtual Machine Migration Management (2014)
  • Author(s): Tae Seung Kang, Mauricio Tsugawa, Andrea Matsunaga, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Jose Fortes
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Volume: 1 Pages: 166-175
  • DOI: 10.1109/ucc.2014.25
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Fast Wide Area Live Migration with a Low Overhead through Page Cache Teleportation (2013)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano, Shinichi Honiden
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing Volume: 1 Pages: 78-82
  • DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid.2013.57
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A WAN-Optimized Live Storage Migration Mechanism toward Virtual Machine Evacuation upon Severe Disasters (2013)
  • Author(s): Takahiro Hirofuchi, Mauricio Tsugawa, Hidemoto Nakada, Tomohiro Kudoh, Satoshi Itoh
  • Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Volume: E96.D Issue: 12 Pages: 2663-2674
  • DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E96.D.2663
  • NAID: 130003385435
  • ISSN: 0916-8532, 1745-1361
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Evaluating Impact of Live Migration on Data Center Energy Saving (2014)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Shinichi Honiden
  • Organizer: The IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: シンガポール（シンガポール）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-17
• [Presentation] Design and Implementation of Middleware for Cloud Disaster Recovery via Virtual Machine Migration Management (2014)
  • Author(s): Tae Seung Kang, Mauricio Tsugawa, Andrea Matsunaga, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Jose Fortes
  • Organizer: The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
  • Place of Presentation: ロンドン（イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-09
• [Presentation] Fast Live Migration with Small IO Performance Penalty by Exploiting SAN in Parallel (2014)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano, Shinichi Honiden
  • Organizer: The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing
  • Place of Presentation: アンカレッジ（アメリカ）
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-28
• [Presentation] Fast Wide Area Live Migration with a Low Overhead through Page Cache Teleportation (2013)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano, Shinichi Honiden
  • Organizer: The 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
  • Place of Presentation: Delft University of Technology（オランダ・デルフト）
• [Presentation] Poster: Fast Wide Area Live Migration with a Low Overhead through Page Cache Teleportation (2013)
  • Author(s): Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano, Shinichi Honiden
  • Organizer: The 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
  • Place of Presentation: Delft University of Technology（オランダ・デルフト）
• [Remarks] AIST Cloud Computing Research
  • URL: http://grivon.apgrid.org/