00918nas a2200181   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001800043100002400061700002200085700001200107700002000119700002400139700001800163245003700181300001400218520050400232       2012                            d  c12bIITiS PAN1 aTadeusz Czachórski1 aKrzysztof Grochla1 aT. Nycz1 aFerhan Pekergin1 aTadeusz Czachórski1 aMateusz Nowak00aDuration of boot-up storm period  a145–1503 aThe simultaneous boot of multiple virtual machines or networking devices imposes heavy load on the networking infrastructure. In large network of virtual machines the coordination of the reboots and the device registration is required. In the paper we present a simple analytical model to compute the distribution of boot-up time. The model is verified by comparison to a simulation model, and may be used to check the influence of several parameters on the overall boot-up time during a boot storm.