OPENSTACK BASED AUTO LIVE MIGRATION MECHANISM OF VIRTUAL MACHINE TO MANAGE LOAD BALANCING IN CLOUD COMPUTING
Keywords:
cloud computing; OpenStack; virtualization; load balancing; automatic VM migrationAbstract
In cloud system, to achieve effective resource utilization to improve the system performance and to minimize
the resource consumption, “Load Balancing” technique is used. Live Migration is used for load balancing. But, when the
number of physical machines increases, manually initiated migrations can become problematic as it is also required to
decide the factors like when to migrate and where to migrate. Therefore in this paper, we propose: “Virtual Machine
Auto Live Migration for Load Balancing”. We also take into account the user billing type (Hourly and Monthly) which
highly affects on the cloud load of the datacenter. We have implemented our propose algorithm using OpenStack as it is
an open-source, most used and rapidly developing cloud platform for the creation of IaaS platforms. We have tested our
algorithm with real world work load traces.