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Intelligent Mechanism for Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Computing

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Green Sustainability: Towards Innovative Digital Transformation (ITAF 2023)

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Abstract

Cloud computing has risen in its importance and is now hosted in massive data centers based on the virtualization technology that in turn allows creating multiple virtualized environments and several virtual machines (VMs) to provide multiple services on a single physical host. Despite its advantages, the virtualization technology might fail at any time or be updated or loaded. Accordingly, the VM must be transferred from the utilized host to another. This movement has now become a significant factor in saving the available resources, reducing energy consumption, increasing resource utilization, maintaining the quality of service in cloud data centers, increasing reliability, and achieving load balancing. Multiple methods for moving VMs have been developed for best utilization of the resources. Among these methods, pre-copy migration is considered as a common approach where it migrates the state of the VM’s memory from the original host to the intended host through a number of iterations before the shutting down of the VM on the original physical host with an amount of time called downtime. The problem with this approach is that it might cause a little disruption to the services operating in the VM. Therefore, various research attempts focused on studying and selecting proper destination hosts with the available resources to the future usage on the VM. Thus, this paper aims to highlight the current scientific work that target the aforementioned goal. Then, the paper tries to illustrate the current challenges and possible future directions in this research area.

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Karam M. Hassan, Fatma El-Zahraa A. El-Gamal & Mohammed Elmogy

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  1. School of Computer Science, Canadian International College, Cairo, Egypt

    Dalia Magdi

  2. Delta Higher Institute for Management and Accounting Information System, El Mansora, Egypt

    Ahmed Abou El-Fetouh

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Ahram Canadian University, Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed Mamdouh

  4. Global Knowledge Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Amit Joshi

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Hassan, K.M., El-Gamal, F.EZ.A., Elmogy, M. (2023). Intelligent Mechanism for Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Computing. In: Magdi, D., El-Fetouh, A.A., Mamdouh, M., Joshi, A. (eds) Green Sustainability: Towards Innovative Digital Transformation. ITAF 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 753. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4764-5_6

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