Eliminating VM Downtime with OCI's Live Migration - First Principles

Explore Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Live Migration solution in this 16-minute video featuring Pradeep and guest Architect Neil Soman. Learn how to eliminate VM downtime during cloud maintenance events, saving costs and time. Dive into the technical aspects of Live Migration, including runtime state migration, memory copying techniques, block storage migration, network migration, and orchestration services. Understand the safeguards built into the system and key takeaways for implementing Live Migration in your cloud infrastructure. Gain insights into maintaining high availability for virtual machine workloads and optimizing cloud maintenance processes.

Introduction to Live Migration
Overview of States for Live Migration
Runtime State Migration
Copying Memory: Post copy v. Pre copy
Resiliency in Live Migration using Pre copy
Migration of additional Runtime State
Persistent State - Block Storage Migration
Other Persistent State to migrate
Network Migration - Paravirtualized vs SR-IOV
Network State Migration Flow
Live Migration Orchestration Service
Safeguards Built into Live Migration
Live Migration Key Takeaways