Methods for enabling enhanced firewall rules via ARP-based annotations

    公开(公告)号:US11431678B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-30

    申请号:US16351083

    申请日:2019-03-12

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    摘要: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for enabling enhanced firewall rules via ARP-based annotations is described. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a hypervisor implemented in a first host, that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor determines first context information for the first process, generates a first request, encapsulates the first request and the first context information in a first packet, and transmits the first packet to a central controller to cause the central controller to update the controller's table to indicate that the first process is executing on the first host. In response to receiving a second packet from the central controller and determining that the second packet comprises a first response, the hypervisor extracts second context information from the second packet and, based on the second context information, determines that a second process is executing on a second host.

    Correlation key used to correlate flow and con text data

    公开(公告)号:US11321213B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16745248

    申请日:2020-01-16

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F11/34 G06F9/455 G06F11/30

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance. Some embodiments collect, each time a request for a new data message flow is initiated, a set of contextual attributes (i.e., context data) associated with the requested new data message flow. The method, in some embodiments, generates a correlation data set and provides the correlation data set to be included in flow data regarding the requested data message flow to be used by the analysis appliance to correlate context data and flow data received as separate data sets from multiple host computers.

    ANALYZING FLOW GROUP ATTRIBUTES USING CONFIGURATION TAGS

    公开(公告)号:US20210029051A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US16520238

    申请日:2019-07-23

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for correlating configuration data received from the network manager computer with flow group records. In some embodiments, the correlation with the configuration data identifies a group associated with at least one of: (i) the source machine, (ii) destination machine, and (iii) service rules applied to the flows. The correlation with the configuration data, in some embodiments, also identifies whether a service rule applied to the flows is a default service rule. In some embodiments, the correlation with the configuration is based on a tag included in the flow group record that identifies a configuration version, and a configuration associated with the identified configuration version is used to identify the group association or the identity of the default service rule.

    DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING KEYS TO HOST FOR FLOW AGGREGATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210026830A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US16520232

    申请日:2019-07-23

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F16/23 G06F16/22

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance. The analysis appliance, in some embodiments, receives definitions of keys and provides them to the host computers. In some embodiments, existing keys are modified based on the analysis. Additionally, or alternatively, new keys are provided based on the analysis. In some embodiments, the analysis appliance receives the flow group records (e.g., sets of attributes) based on the keys and the configuration data from each host computer.

    Identity-based access control for cloud applications

    公开(公告)号:US11765174B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US16213545

    申请日:2018-12-07

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04L9/40 G06F9/455

    摘要: Techniques for providing application-independent access control in a cloud-services computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing application-independent access control is provided. The method includes obtaining a user identity for accessing the cloud-services computing environment and receiving a user request to perform a task using an application. The method further includes collecting process-related data for performing the task using the application and obtaining one or more network routing addresses. The method further includes determining, based on the user identity, the process-related data, and the one or more network routing addresses, whether the task is to be performed. If that the task is to be performed, the task is caused to be performed using the application; and if the task is not to be performed, the user request is denied.

    CORRELATION KEY USED TO CORRELATE FLOW AND CONTEXT DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20210224179A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US16745248

    申请日:2020-01-16

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F11/34 G06F11/30 G06F9/455

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance. Some embodiments collect, each time a request for a new data message flow is initiated, a set of contextual attributes (i.e., context data) associated with the requested new data message flow. The method, in some embodiments, generates a correlation data set and provides the correlation data set to be included in flow data regarding the requested data message flow to be used by the analysis appliance to correlate context data and flow data received as separate data sets from multiple host computers.

    USING KEYS TO AGGREGATE FLOWS AT APPLIANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20210026863A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US16520227

    申请日:2019-07-23

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F16/25 G06F7/14

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for receiving a plurality of attribute sets from a set of host computers, each attribute set associated with a group of one or more flows that is created by using a key to associate individual flows into the group of flows. The appliance, in some embodiments, identifies at least two received attribute sets from two different host computers that relate to a same set of flows between a same set of source machines and a same set of destination machines. The appliance merges the two identified attribute sets into one merged attribute set and analyzes the merged attribute set to identify a set of properties of the flows in the groups of flows associated with the two identified attribute sets, in some embodiments.

    HIERARCHICAL API FOR DEFINING A MULTI-SEGMENTED APPLICATION IN AN SDDC

    公开(公告)号:US20200065080A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16112396

    申请日:2018-08-24

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a simplified mechanism to deploy and control a multi-segmented application by using application-based manifests that express how application segments of the multi-segment application are to be defined or modified, and how the communication profiles between these segments. In some embodiments, these manifests are application specific. Also, in some embodiments, deployment managers in a software defined datacenter (SDDC) provide these manifests as templates to administrators, who can use these templates to express their intent when they are deploying multi-segment applications in the datacenter. Application-based manifests can also be used to control previously deployed multi-segmented applications in the SDDC. Using such manifests would enable the administrators to be able to manage fine grained micro-segmentation rules based on endpoint and network attributes.

    CONTEXT AWARE MIDDLEBOX SERVICES AT DATACENTER EDGES

    公开(公告)号:US20200014663A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16028347

    申请日:2018-07-05

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 G06F9/455

    摘要: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for providing context-aware middlebox services at the edge of a physical datacenter. In some embodiments, the middlebox service engines run in an edge host (e.g., an NSX Edge) that provides routing services and connectivity to external networks (e.g., networks external to an NSX-T deployment). Some embodiments use a novel architecture for capturing contextual attributes on host computers that execute one or more machines and providing the captured contextual attributes to context-aware middlebox service engines providing the context-aware middlebox services. In some embodiments, a context header insertion processor uses contextual attributes to generate a header including data regarding the contextual attributes (a “context header”) that is used to encapsulate a data message that is processed by the SFE and sent to the context-aware middlebox service engine.

    Dynamically providing keys to host for flow aggregation

    公开(公告)号:US11288256B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16520232

    申请日:2019-07-23

    申请人: VMware, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance. The analysis appliance, in some embodiments, receives definitions of keys and provides them to the host computers. In some embodiments, existing keys are modified based on the analysis. Additionally, or alternatively, new keys are provided based on the analysis. In some embodiments, the analysis appliance receives the flow group records (e.g., sets of attributes) based on the keys and the configuration data from each host computer.