公开(公告)号：US20180062929A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15690249

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Serge MASKALIK ,  Sachin THAKKAR ,  Gabriel ROSAS ,  Debashis BASAK ,  Allwyn SEQUEIRA

IPC: H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L41/0886 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0813 ,  H04L41/0823 ,  H04L41/0843

Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein permit logical topologies of datacenters to be automatically learned and re-created in the cloud. In one embodiment, a datacenter landscape is determined based on numbers of hops from nodes in a datacenter to a wide area network (WAN)-facing node. Such a datacenter landscape may then be re-created in the cloud. In another embodiment, virtual appliances are deployed using templates with user-tunable parameters. What would have been set up manually in a physical datacenter, such as connecting a new router to other devices, is then simplified to adjusting parameters of the template to specify, e.g., that the router is a routed hop rather than a bump in the wire, with the router then being automatically deployed in the specified manner.