Experiences in the land of virtual abstractions

The Microsoft Research Drawbridge Project began with a simple question: Is it possible to achieve the benefits of hardware virtual machines without the overheads? Following that question, we have built a line of exploratory prototypes. These prototypes ...

We are developing an efficient resource management system with aggressive virtual machine (VM) relocation among physical nodes in a data center. Existing live migration technology, however, requires a long time to change the execution host of a VM, it ...

Virtualization is the key underlying technology enabling cloud providers to host services for a large number of customers. Live migration is an essential feature of virtualization that allows transfer of virtual machines from one physical server to ...