CS431 Part-2 Cloud Computing


In this essay, you are required to read and review on the selected paper: Live Migration of
Virtual Machines. You need to address the following questions:

• What are the main concerns with virtual machine live migration in terms of memory,
CPU context and network?
• Why is virtual machine live migration important in large-scale datacentre?
• Regarding memory migration, explain why the “pre-copy” mechanism is faster than
the “stop-and-copy” mechanism.

The correctness and thoroughness of your answers determine the final score of your
essay.

The essay should be kept at 1 full page maximum. You must use A4 page size, 12-point font
for the main text, with single line spacing, and margins of 25mm.

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