An Overview of VM Live Migration Strategies and Technologies

Abstract

Cloud computing is an effective technology in handling computation with dynamically scalable resources. With the growth of multimedia applications, mobile applications have become resource-intensive. To provide better connectivity with the cloud, cloudlets have been introduced, which in turns provide low latency and high bandwidth. Cloudlets also enable us to optimize Virtual Machine Migration amongst them. In this paper, we discuss the Live migration of Virtual machines, various types of live migration with respect to strategies supplemented with storage technologies; NFS and GlusterFS. An overview of migration in cloudlets and Fog computing architecture are elucidated.