公开(公告)号：US11258729B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-22

申请号：US16299697

申请日：2019-03-12

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Rishi Kanth Alapati ,  Subin Cyriac Mathew ,  Chidambareswaran Raman ,  Amit Aneja

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.