為了讓雲端平台中的虛擬機能夠持續不中斷的提供服務，雲端平台供應商需要具備高可用性(High Availability) 的平台，使提供服務之虛擬機在發生不預期的錯誤時能繼續提供原先的服務。而若要使雲端平台上的服務再發生故障後迅速恢復，雲端平台就需要導入容錯系統(Fault-tolerance System)，使主要虛擬機(Primary VM) 上停止服務時，可以被備援虛擬機接手。傳統的容錯架構多半使用檢查點(Continuous Checkpointing) 的技術，此方法雖實作較為容易，然而基於此技術所建立的容錯系統因為需等待檢查點傳送完成，因而造成網路緩衝時間(Network buffer time) 過長，進而導致虛擬機上的服務回應時間過長。本研究主要基於國立中央大學平行與分散計算實驗室所開發的NCU MFTVM 容錯系統，進行網路傳送的加速，NCU MFTVM 是一個基於Continuous Checkpointing 技術的容錯系統，因此並利用Linux kernel 所提供之zero-copy 機制，加速封包傳遞時間，縮短建立檢查點所需之時間。;In order for the virtual machines in the cloud platform to continue to provide services without interruption, cloud platform providers need a platform with High Availability, so that the virtual machines that provide services can continue to operate when unexpected errors occur. In order to quickly restore services on the cloud platform after a failure occurs, the cloud platform needs to introduce a fault-tolerance system so that when the service on the primary VM stops, the backup virtual machine can take over. Most of the traditional fault-tolerant architectures use Continuous Checkpointing technology. Although this method is relatively easy to implement, the fault-tolerant system based on this technology needs to wait for the completion of the checkpoint transmission, resulting in too long network buffer time. This in turn causes the service response time on the virtual machine to be too long. This research is mainly based on the NCU MFTVM fault-tolerant system developed by the Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory of National Central University for subsequent development. NCU MFTVM is a fault-tolerant system based on the Continuous Checkpointing method. zero-copy mechanism, evaluate whether it can speed up the packet delivery time, reduce checkpoint epoch time, thereby reducing the response time of the services provided by the virtual machine.
