Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for dynamically configuring a DHCP server in a virtual network environment
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Application No.: US14157547Application Date: 2014-01-17
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Publication No.: US09787633B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat , Aravind Srinivasan , Amit Ratnapal Sangodkar
- Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Priority: IN5613/CHE/2013 20131205
- Main IPC: H04L29/12
- IPC: H04L29/12

Abstract:
Techniques for dynamically configuring a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server in a virtual network environment are described. In one example embodiment, DHCP bindings are configured using virtual machine (VM) inventory objects. Further, the configured DHCP bindings are transformed by replacing the VM inventory objects in the configured DHCP bindings with associated media access control (MAC) addresses using a VM object attribute table. Furthermore, the transformed DHCP bindings are sent to the DHCP sever for assigning Internet protocol (IP) addresses to multiple VMs running on a plurality of host computing systems in a computing network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150163196A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A DHCP SERVER IN A VIRTUAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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