Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Recovering a virtual machine after failure of post-copy live migration
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Application No.: US17242508Application Date: 2021-04-28
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Publication No.: US11409619B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Kartik Gopalan , Ping Yang , Dinuni K. Fernando , Jonathan Terner
- Applicant: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
- Applicant Address: US NY Binghamton
- Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
- Current Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Binghamton
- Agency: Hoffberg & Associates
- Agent Steven M. Hoffberg
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F11/07

Abstract:
Post-copy is one of the two key techniques (besides pre-copy) for live migration of virtual machines in data centers. Post-copy provides deterministic total migration time and low downtime for write-intensive VMs. However, if post-copy migration fails for any reason, the migrating VM is lost because the VM's latest consistent state is split between the source and destination nodes during migration. PostCopyFT provides a new approach to recover a VM after a destination or network failure during post-copy live migration using an efficient reverse incremental checkpointing mechanism. PostCopyFT was implemented and evaluated in the KVM/QEMU platform. Experimental results show that the total migration time of post-copy remains unchanged while maintaining low failover time, downtime, and application performance overhead.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210342232A1 RECOVERING A VIRTUAL MACHINE AFTER FAILURE OF POST-COPY LIVE MIGRATION Public/Granted day:2021-11-04
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