00905nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001260001800042100002400060700002200084700001200106700002000118700002400138700001800162245003700180300001400217520050400231       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.