Virtualization essentially enables multiple operating systems and applications to run on one physical computer by multiplexing hardware resources. A key motivation for applying vi...
System-level virtualization is today enjoying a rebirth, after first gaining popularity in the 1970s as a technique to effectively share what were then considered large computin...
Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database management systems and other enterprise software applications. In this paper, we consider a commo...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, P...
In virtual machine environments each application is often run in its own virtual machine (VM), isolating it from other applications running on the same physical machine. Contentio...
Justin Cappos, Scott M. Baker, Jeremy Plichta, Duy...
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...