Cloud Migration Experiment Configuration and Results
Abstract
The cloud environment leverages many fundamental technologies. One such technology is virtualization (hypervisor). At a high level, the hypervisor allows for a number of virtual machines to share the physical resources of a single physical machine. A large number of physical machines with hypervisors (host machines) could be networked together to form what is known as a cloud environment. A virtual machine that is hosted on a hypervisor is often referred to as a guest virtual machine. The increase of a number of organizations leveraging the same physical host hypervisor for guest virtual machines opens up the opportunity for what is often referred to as side channel attacks. A technique that allows a virtual machine to accommodate increased resource needs or possibly defend itself from side channel attacks is migration. Migration is the process of moving a guest virtual machine from one physical host to another. This report discusses the different migration types and the results from experimentation in the US Army Research Laboratory Cloud Testbed (Kraken).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1043724
Entities
People
- Justin Wray
- Michael De Lucia
- Steven S. Collmann
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory