Live Migration for the masses
Posted: 2. Dec 2009, 00:57
VirtualBox 3.1 teleports in... into the Enterprise. The trouble is that it works only in Enterprises, because VirtualBox 3.1 requires so-called "shared storage", which home users don't have. The next Enterprise feature might be High-Availability (HA).
In my opinion, it may be interesting to live migrate VMs, VM appliances, or applications in home environments too...
Home users "teleport" their workload by using web services, such as GMail. See:
http://www.osnews.com/comments/22557
In my opinion, VirtualBox should have an option to Teleport the disk image too, to be useful for Home Users alike... transferring a 10 Gig image (along with snapshots) is not a big deal over Gigabit Ethernet. (removing a requirement for shared storage)
Additionally this feature must be exposed in the VBox GUI, just like Import/Export appliance (OVF) is.
This will be especially useful for Laptop users.
Would it be possible (or feasible) to make it more Home User oriented ? i.e. migrate VMs together with the VDI ?
As for now, the other products (Xen, Hyper-V, Qemu/KVM Live Migration and VMware VMotion) are also targetted at Enterprise users and also require shared storage... so this is purely theoretical talk.
What do you think of it?
-Technologov
In my opinion, it may be interesting to live migrate VMs, VM appliances, or applications in home environments too...
Home users "teleport" their workload by using web services, such as GMail. See:
http://www.osnews.com/comments/22557
In my opinion, VirtualBox should have an option to Teleport the disk image too, to be useful for Home Users alike... transferring a 10 Gig image (along with snapshots) is not a big deal over Gigabit Ethernet. (removing a requirement for shared storage)
Additionally this feature must be exposed in the VBox GUI, just like Import/Export appliance (OVF) is.
This will be especially useful for Laptop users.
Would it be possible (or feasible) to make it more Home User oriented ? i.e. migrate VMs together with the VDI ?
As for now, the other products (Xen, Hyper-V, Qemu/KVM Live Migration and VMware VMotion) are also targetted at Enterprise users and also require shared storage... so this is purely theoretical talk.
What do you think of it?
-Technologov