公开(公告)号：US11601383B1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-07

申请号：US17476758

申请日：2021-09-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Nilesh Nipane ,  Aarti Lolage ,  Nikhil Rajguru ,  Akshay Kale ,  Kaustubh Naniwadekar

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04L12/935 ,  H04L49/00 ,  H04L45/586

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for in-place conversion of a virtual switch on a host. Techniques are provided for in-place conversion of a virtual switch from a first type of virtual switch to a destination type of virtual switch. A method includes rekeying, by a second manager agent, one or more uplink ports associated with one or more logical switches implemented by the virtual on the host with the unique identifier. The rekeying includes updating one or more existing uplink port identifiers assigned to the one or more uplink ports with the unique identifier associated with a first manager agent. The method includes removing, by the first manager agent, an association of the one or more uplink ports with the opaque network; and informing the first manager and the second manager that the virtual switch is of the destination type of virtual switch.

公开(公告)号：US20230013269A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17376106

申请日：2021-07-14

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Akshay Kale ,  Anil Lohiya ,  Fang Peng ,  Maheedhar Nallapareddy ,  Jianjun Shen

IPC: H04L12/715 ,  H04L12/713 ,  H04L12/66 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: A method for creating overlay networking constructs to establish network connectivity between virtual routers and remote physical gateways is provided. An orchestrator receives a mapping between tenant network identifiers for multiple tenant networks and overlay network identifiers for multiple overlay networks. The orchestrator attaches a virtual router to a parent logical port of an overlay logical switch for connectivity between a physical gateway and the multiple tenant networks. The orchestrator creates multiple child logical ports that are sub-interfaces of the parent logical port. Each child logical port is uniquely identified by a tenant network identifier. The orchestrator connects multiple child logical switches to the multiple child logical ports according to the received mapping. Each child logical switch is uniquely identified by an overlay network identifier. The orchestrator establishes multiple overlay networks based on the child logical switches to tunnel data between the physical gateway and the child logical ports.