00933nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260002500043100001400068700002400082700002200106700001200128700002000140700001700160700001200177245003800189300001400227520049800241       2014                            d  c10bSpringeraLondon1 aT. Atmaca1 aTadeusz Czachórski1 aKrzysztof Grochla1 aT. Nycz1 aFerhan Pekergin1 aErol Gelenbe1 aR. Lent00aA model of boot-up storm dynamics  a371–3793 aThe simultaneous boot of multiple virtual machines or networking devices imposes heavy load on the networking infrastructure. In large network of many virtual machines the coordination of the reboots and device registration is required. In the paper we present a simple analytical model computing the distribution of boot-up time, which is verified by comparison to a simulation model and provide analysis of the influence of several parameters on the overall boot-up time during a boot storm.