Performance Analysis of VM Migration between Openflow enabled Datacenters

[nahelna@gmail.com]

Participants: Hellen Maziku, Dr. Sachin Shetty, and Dr. Kaiqi Xiong

Brief demo description: Virtual Machine Migration is a typical activity performed in data centers to satisfy security and performance guarantees. Unfortunately, in event of congested network paths between cloud data centers, there is a performance penalty associated with migrating VMs. The performance penalty is higher if the data centers are in geographically disparate regions and the network paths are frequently congested. The objective of this demo is to analyze the performance impact of Virtual Machine Migrations across GENI nodes connected by a network of open flow switches. Specifically, we will quantify the bandwidth and latency associated with migrating VM on a congested network path. In our experiment, we will create three separate network on both ExoGENI and ProtoGENI infrastructure. These networks will be connected by a network of 7 OpenFlow switches. The network will connect cloud data centers hosted by Amazon Web Services in two different regions. We will develop a controller which will compute performance cost of VM migration on all possible network paths. We will use GENI Desktop with GEMINI to analyze our results.

List of equipment that will need AC connections: Laptops – 2 (AC connections)

Number of wired network connections: 2

Number of wireless network connections: 2

Number of static addresses needed: 2

Monitor (y/n, specify VGA or DVI): Yes (VGA)

Number of posters: 1

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