International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 127 - Number 4 |
Year of Publication: 2015 |
Authors: Santosh Kumar Majhi, Sunil Kumar Dhal |
10.5120/ijca2015906364 |
Santosh Kumar Majhi, Sunil Kumar Dhal . A Security State Transfer Model for Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Infrastructure. International Journal of Computer Applications. 127, 4 ( October 2015), 10-14. DOI=10.5120/ijca2015906364
Virtual machine migration (VMM) is one of important services is used as a tool to facilitate system maintenance, load balancing, fault tolerance, on-demand service offerings. Live VMM transfers an active Virtual Machine (VM) from one physical host to another across different data centres. It involves a sequence of operations in iteration under a specific protocol/method for migrating execution context (active memory) and control data of a VM to the destination machine. These operations are dependent on data transfer schedule, availability of resources and overall timing constraints. The migration process is implemented by establishing shared network storage and/or a network communication channel. Along with the execution context the security configuration of the VM need to be transferred. In this paper we have proposed a security context migration framework. Both the static as well as dynamic security context is considered for migration.