Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to migrate physical server hosts between virtual standard switches and virtual distributed switches in a network
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Application No.: US15954187Application Date: 2018-04-16
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Publication No.: US11012297B2Publication Date: 2021-05-18
- Inventor: Boris Dimitrov Stoicov , Christian Dickmann
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract:
An example apparatus to migrate a physical server host from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch includes: a user input interface to receive a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch; a configurator to generate a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards; and a virtual distributed switch creator to, based on a user-selection to proceed with the migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch, create the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, the configurator to configure the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.
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