TY - GEN
T1 - Low bitrate asynchronous replication of block devices and virtual machines
AU - Averbuch, Amir
AU - Margalit, Tomer
AU - Zaidenberg, Nezer
AU - Khen, Eviatar
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We present Amirror, a system for asynchronous replication of virtual machines (running on top of QEMU-KVM and Lguest). The system uses a homegrown block device replication layer for data replication and includes VM replication components for Lguest and QEMU-KVM. We describe both of these components in this paper. Unlike previous works in the field, Amirror focus on low bitrate systems. We target environments with low bandwidth that make frequent migration impossible. We put bandwidth preservation and operation continuity at the top of our priorities. To this end we are willing to sacrifice performance in order to preserve decent operation continuity even in low bitrate environments. We focus on SOHO1 environments as our target market. SOHO environments are often characterized by low requirements for actual performance and disk usage. However, SOHO environments are also limited in bandwidth capacity, especially upstream. All of these are taken into careful consideration throughout this paper.
AB - We present Amirror, a system for asynchronous replication of virtual machines (running on top of QEMU-KVM and Lguest). The system uses a homegrown block device replication layer for data replication and includes VM replication components for Lguest and QEMU-KVM. We describe both of these components in this paper. Unlike previous works in the field, Amirror focus on low bitrate systems. We target environments with low bandwidth that make frequent migration impossible. We put bandwidth preservation and operation continuity at the top of our priorities. To this end we are willing to sacrifice performance in order to preserve decent operation continuity even in low bitrate environments. We focus on SOHO1 environments as our target market. SOHO environments are often characterized by low requirements for actual performance and disk usage. However, SOHO environments are also limited in bandwidth capacity, especially upstream. All of these are taken into careful consideration throughout this paper.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052899350&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/NAS.2011.46
DO - 10.1109/NAS.2011.46
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AN - SCOPUS:80052899350
SN - 9780769545097
T3 - Proceedings - 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2011
SP - 180
EP - 185
BT - Proceedings - 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2011
T2 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2011
Y2 - 28 July 2011 through 30 July 2011
ER -