The effects of soft errors and mitigation strategies for virtualization servers

F Cerveira, R Barbosa, H Madeira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtualized servers compose the majority of cloud computing environments, where these
nodes are used to host multiple clients over the same hardware. Many organizations run …

On soft error reliability of virtualization infrastructure

X Xu, HH Huang - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware errors are no longer exceptions in modern cloud data centers. Although
virtualization provides software failure isolation among different virtual machines (VM), the …

Understanding reliability implication of hardware error in virtualization infrastructure

X Xu, HH Huang - 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability …, 2014 - usenix.org
Hardware errors are no longer the exceptions in modern cloud data centers. Although
virtualization provides software failure isolation across different virtual machines (VM), the …

Mitigating virtualization failures through migration to a co-located hypervisor

F Cerveira, R Barbosa, H Madeira - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many organizations are moving their systems to the cloud, where providers consolidate
multiple clients using virtualization, which creates challenges to business-critical …

Tinychecker: Transparent protection of vms against hypervisor failures with nested virtualization

C Tan, Y Xia, H Chen, B Zang - IEEE/IFIP International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing amount of resources in a single machine constantly increases the level of
server consolidation for virtualization. However, along with the improvement of server …

Xentry: Hypervisor-level soft error detection

X Xu, RC Chiang, HH Huang - 2014 43rd International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud data centers leverage virtualization to share commodity hardware resources, where
virtual machines (VMs) achieve fault isolation by containing VM failures within the …

Fast VM replication on heterogeneous hypervisors for robust fault tolerance

JB Decourcelle, TD Ngoc, B Teabe… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The reliability of virtualization infrastructures in the face of availability issues is a long-
standing problem. Current fault tolerance approaches such as live VM replication are …

Recovery for virtualized environments

F Cerveira, R Barbosa, H Madeira… - 2015 11th European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud infrastructures provide elastic computing resources to client organizations, enabling
them to build online applications while avoiding the fixed costs associated to a complete IT …

Mitigating vulnerability windows with hypervisor transplant

TD Ngoc, B Teabe, A Tchana, G Muller… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The vulnerability window of a hypervisor regarding a given security flaw is the time between
the identification of the flaw and the integration of a correction/patch in the running …

Performance of virtual machines under networked denial of service attacks: Experiments and analysis

R Shea, J Liu - IEEE Systems Journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of virtual machines (VMs) to provide computational infrastructure and services to
organizations is increasingly prevalent in the modern IT industry. The growing use of this …