Cloud computing, a modern world technology ensures that the resources are efficiently utilized, provisioned and are available all the time. When one virtual machine is running on one host and then urge rises to migrate that Virtual Machine to some other host on the same or different network; then live migration of Virtual Machines comes into the picture. In the simple live migration of processes, applications or virtual machines, process as well as operating system, on which the machine is operating needs to be migrated. But with the introduction of containers in the cloud computing, migration process becomes easy and less complex. Now, only the process or the virtual machine is only migrated to another host, regardless of the underlying operating system. Containers had made migration process easy because they contain inbuilt operating system in them. In this paper, we are going to review different containers that are used in the live migration of virtual machines.

Cloud Computing, Containers, High-Performance Computing, Live Migration, Virtualization

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