Evaluation of a Secure Live Migration of Virtual Machines Using Ipsec Implementation

Author

Bin Sulaiman, Norshazrul Azman ; Masuda, Hiroji

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

Aug. 31 2014-Sept. 4 2014

Firstpage

687

Lastpage

693

Abstract

Live migration enables administrators to perform online maintenance on host and virtual machines without interrupted service during fault occurrences. While migrating VMs between physical servers of different data centers over the network is considered, security is essential for securing the migration data which has not been considered in most cases up until now. This paper considers performing live migration under an IPsec implemented transmission channel to achieve a secured transmission of migration data between servers. IPsec is proven to be secure and can be implemented for live migration but due to the excessive amount of overhead produced by IPsec, proposed sophisticated tuning of MTU and MSS values resulted in a better migration performance.

Keywords

IP networks; computer centres; computer network security; protocols; telecommunication channels; virtual machines; virtualisation; IPsec implemented transmission channel; MSS value; MTU value; VM migration; data centers; fault occurrences; host machines; online maintenance; overhead; physical servers; secure live migration evaluation; secured migration data transmission; virtual machines; Authentication; Distributed databases; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Servers; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAIAAI), 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kitakyushu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4174-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2014.142

Filename

6913386