SETTING RETRANSMISSION TIME OF AN APPLICATION CLIENT DURING VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION

• US 20160292002A1
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Li, Liu, Liang, Qu, Jun Mei, Yu, Qi
• Granted Patent: US 10,025,614 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements

Abstract

A method of setting retransmission time of an application client during virtual machine migration includes predicting migration memory size required by a virtual machine to be migrated based on historical access log of at least one application and memory log of the virtual machine to be migrated; computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated; computing virtual machine migration time based on the predicted migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated and the available migration bandwidth of the host; and setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time.

Claims

1. A method of setting retransmission time of an application client during virtual machine migration, the method comprising:

predicting, with a processing device, migration memory size required by a virtual machine to be migrated based on historical access log of at least one application and memory log of the virtual machine to be migrated;

computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated;

computing virtual machine migration time based on the predicted migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated and the available migration bandwidth of the host; and

setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predicting migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated based on the function relation comprises:

predicting migration memory size required by the at least one application based on the function relation and request arrival rate of the at least one application at migration time;

obtaining migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated by accumulating memory size required by the at least one application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated comprises:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is greater than or equal to bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated is

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated comprises:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is smaller than bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then computing available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated based on weight of the virtual machine to be migrated.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time comprises:

setting retransmission time of the application client to be larger than migration time of the virtual machine.

6. An apparatus for setting retransmission time of an application client during virtual machine migration, comprising:

a migration memory predicting module configured to predict migration memory size required by a virtual machine to be migrated based on historical access log of at least one application and memory log of the virtual machine to be migrated;

an available bandwidth computing module configured to compute available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated;

a migration time computing module configured to compute virtual machine migration time based on the predicted migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated and the available migration bandwidth of the host; and

a retransmission time setting module configured to set retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the migration memory predicting module is further configured to:

predict migration memory size required by the at least one application based on the function relation and request arrival rate of the at least one application at migration time;

obtain migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated by accumulating memory size required by the at least one application.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the available bandwidth computing module is configured to:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is greater than or equal to bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated is

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the available bandwidth computing module is configured to:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is smaller than bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then compute available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated based on weight of the virtual machine to be migrated.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the retransmission time setting module is further configured to:

set retransmission time of the application client to be larger than migration time of the virtual machine.

11. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computer, implement a method of setting retransmission time of an application client during virtual machine migration, the method comprising:

predicting, with a processing device, migration memory size required by a virtual machine to be migrated based on historical access log of at least one application and memory log of the virtual machine to be migrated;

computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated;

computing virtual machine migration time based on the predicted migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated and the available migration bandwidth of the host; and

setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time.

12. The non-transitory, computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the predicting migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated based on the function relation comprises:

predicting migration memory size required by the at least one application based on the function relation and request arrival rate of the at least one application at migration time;

obtaining migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated by accumulating memory size required by the at least one application.

13. The non-transitory, computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated comprises:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is greater than or equal to bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated is

14. The non-transitory, computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated comprises:

in case that there are a plurality of virtual machines requesting bandwidth from the host, if bandwidth of the host is smaller than bandwidth requested by the plurality of virtual machines, then computing available migration bandwidth of the host of the virtual machine to be migrated based on weight of the virtual machine to be migrated.

15. The non-transitory, computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time comprises:

setting retransmission time of the application client to be larger than migration time of the virtual machine.