Recent Trends, Issues and Challenges in Container and VM Migration

The enabling of businesses to move between multiple cloud environments, even when there is a need to recreate applications on different clouds, is facilitated by Inter Cloud (C2C) migration. During C2C migration, both Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers get transferred from one remote environment to another. However, in traditional migration strategies, the VMs are temporarily halted, resulting in the unavailability of services operating on several VMs and Containers during the Cloud-to- Cloud transfer. In Dynamic Resource Management (DRM), VM and container migration play essential roles as components. This paper aims to review recent trends in migration for both forms of virtualization. Surprisingly, there is currently no comprehensive review that explores the dynamics influencing the adoption of Virtual Machine and container technology for virtualization. The lack of overview hampers the quick and informed selection of technology. To address the existing knowledge gap and identify the most recent advancements in Virtual Machine and Container technologies and research trends. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review and valuable insights that facilitate informed decision-making in the realm of Virtual Machine and Container migration.