Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cross-cloud namespace management for multi-tenant environments
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Application No.: US14664939Application Date: 2015-03-23
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Publication No.: US10757170B2Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Sachin Thakkar , Debashis Basak , Serge Maskalik , Weiqing Wu , Aravind Srinivasan
- Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Loza & Loza, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@66e943b8
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Conditional address translation is performed in a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure to effectively support tenant-assigned addresses. For each tenant, the multi-tenant cloud infrastructure deploys both a private network used to communicate between the tenant and the cloud and a tenant-facing gateway to manage the private network. The multi-tenant cloud infrastructure also includes an externally-facing gateway used to communicate between the multi-tenant cloud and a public network. The tenant-facing gateways are configured to bypass address translation—providing consistent addressing across each private network irrespective of the physical location of resources linked by the private network. By contrast, the public-facing gateway is configured to translate source addresses in outgoing packets to addresses that are unique within the public network. Advantageously, discriminately mapping addresses enables multiple tenants to interact in a uniform fashion with both on-premises resources and cloud-hosted resources without incurring undesirable address collisions between tenants.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160105393A1 CROSS-CLOUD NAMESPACE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2016-04-14
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