Transparent, Power-Aware Migration in Virtualized Systems

  • Author:

    Jan Stoess, Christoph Klee, Stefan Domthera and Frank Bellosa

  • Source:

    Proceedings GI/ITG Fachgruppentreffen Betriebssysteme, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 12, 2007, pp. 3-8 (Interner Bericht 2007-23, Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH))

  • Date: 12.10.2007
  • Abstract:

    This paper explores the use of hypervisor-based virtualization technology as a means to enable power management in server systems. Our approach focuses on the dynamic mapping of physical processors and hosts to virtual machines. We have developed a multi-tiered infrastructure that enables dynamic migration of virtual machine execution flow at two different levels: within and across computer nodes. Within a node, our infrastructure dynamically allocates and re-allocates virtual processors to their physical counterparts. Across nodes, our infrastructure employs live migration to relocate complete guest operating system instances to distinct physical hosts.

    BibTex:

    @inproceedings{stoess07migration,
      author = {Jan Stoess and Christoph Klee and Stefan Domthera and Frank Bellosa},
      title = {Transparent, Power-Aware Migration in Virtualized Systems},
      booktitle = {GI/ITG Fachgruppentreffen Betriebssysteme},
      address = {Karlsruhe, Germany},
      year = 2007,
      month = oct,
      publisher = {Fakult\"at f\"ur Informatik, Universit\"at Karlsruhe (TH)},
      note = {Interner Bericht},
      number = {2007-23},
      pages = {3--8},
      affiliation = {University of Karlsruhe, Germany}
    }