L3 UNDERLAY ROUTING IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT USING HYBRID DISTRIBUTED LOGICAL ROUTER

    公开(公告)号:US20210092057A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-25

    申请号:US16575638

    申请日:2019-09-19

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for overcoming the limitations of a cloud provider network when a data center with software-defined network and multiple hosts, each with multiple virtual machines, operates on the cloud provider network. Single-host aware routers and a multiple-host aware distributed router are combined into a hybrid router in each host. The hybrid router receives a route table from the control plane of the data center and updates the received table based on the locations of VMs, such as edge VMs and management VAs on each of the hosts. An agent in each host also updates a router in the cloud provider network based on the locations of the virtual machines on the hosts. Thus, the hybrid routers maintain local routing information and global routing information for the virtual machines on the hosts in the data center.

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