Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deploying a software defined networking (SDN) solution on a host using a single active uplink
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Application No.: US16299697Application Date: 2019-03-12
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Publication No.: US11258729B2Publication Date: 2022-02-22
- Inventor: Rishi Kanth Alapati , Subin Cyriac Mathew , Chidambareswaran Raman , Amit Aneja
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L49/00 ; H04L45/586 ; H04L49/356 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L45/64

Abstract:
The disclosure provides an approach for deploying an software defined networking (SDN) solution on a host using a single virtual switch and a single active network interface card (NIC) to handle overlay traffic and also other types of network traffic, such as traffic between management components of the logical overlay networks, traffic of a virtual storage area network (VSAN), traffic used to move VMs between hosts, traffic associated with VMKernel services or network stacks provided by a VMKernel that is provided as part of the hypervisor on the host, a gateway device that may be implemented as a VCI on the host, and different SDN-related components, such as an SDN manager implementing the MP and an SDN controller implementing the CP, etc.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200274828A1 DEPLOYING A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) SOLUTION ON A HOST USING A SINGLE ACTIVE UPLINK Public/Granted day:2020-08-27
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