Invention Application
- Patent Title: ENABLING VIRTUAL MACHINES ACCESS TO SWITCHES CONFIGURED BY DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT ENTITIES
- Patent Title (中): 启用虚拟机访问不同管理实体配置的开关
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Application No.: US14467001Application Date: 2014-08-23
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Publication No.: US20160057014A1Publication Date: 2016-02-25
- Inventor: Sachin Thakkar , ChiHsiang Su , Jia Yu , Piyush Kothari , Nilesh Ramchandra Nipane
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24 ; H04L12/931

Abstract:
A method of configuring a plurality of logical forwarding elements (LFEs) on a physical computing device comprising virtualization software and a plurality of data compute nodes (DCNs) is provided. The method provisions a first LFE configured and managed by a network manager of a datacenter on the physical computing device, the first LFE for performing OSI L3)packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the first LFE comprising a plurality of logical ports configured and managed by the network manager, each logical port of the first LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager. The method provisions a second LFE configured and managed by a compute manager of the datacenter on the physical computing device, the second LFE for performing OSI L3 packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the second LFE comprising a plurality of logical port groups configured and managed by the compute manager, each logical port of the second LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager. The method configures a first DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager through a port of the first LFE. The method configures a second DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager through a port of the second LFE.
Public/Granted literature
- US10481933B2 Enabling virtual machines access to switches configured by different management entities Public/Granted day:2019-11-19
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