Changed 2.6 to mention state salvaging

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Jonatan Pålsson 2011-05-12 10:14:18 +02:00
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@ -2414,8 +2414,10 @@ One important factor of any server is the availability.
\begin_layout Standard
There are several good papers on how to migrate whole virtual machines among
nodes to replicate them but for the GGS a different approach has been chosen.
Instead of just duplicating a virtual machine, the programming language
Erlang has been used which offers several features to increase the availability.
Instead of duplicating a virtual machine, an attempt to lift the state
of the VM to a storage external to the VM is made.
The state is stored in a fast, fault tolerant data store instead of inside
the VM.
Some of them are
\emph on
hot code replacement