Resilient and adaptive networked systems

Nowadays, networks form the backbone of most of the computing systems, and modern system infrastructures must accommodate continuously changing demands for different types of workloads and time constraints. In a similar context, adaptive management of virtualized application environments among networked systems is becoming one of the most important strategies to guarantee resilience and performance of available computing resources. In this chapter, Mauro Andreolini et al. analyze the management algorithms that decide, in an adaptive manner, the transparent reallocation of live sessions of virtual machines in large numbers of networked hosts. They discuss the main challenges and solutions related to the adaptive activation of the migration process.