公开(公告)号：US20240250905A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158741

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Pierluigi ROLANDO ,  Subramanyam MANUGURI ,  Raju KOGANTY ,  Yuxiao ZHANG ,  Akhila NAVEEN ,  Mani Prasad KANCHERLA ,  Srinivas RAMASWAMY ,  Jayakrishnan CHATHU ,  Krishna Chaitanya BANDI ,  Hui ZHENG

IPC: H04L45/586 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/42

CPC classification number: H04L45/586 ,  H04L45/42 ,  H04L45/566

Abstract: An example method of packet processing in a host cluster of a virtualized computing system includes: receiving traffic at packet processing software of a hypervisor executing on a host of the host cluster; processing the traffic using a network service of the packet processing software in the hypervisor; redirecting the traffic to a service virtual machine (VM) in the host cluster through a virtual network interface card (vNIC) of the service VM; sending metadata from the network service of the packet processing software to the service VM; processing the traffic and the metadata through at least one network service executing in the service VM; returning the traffic from the service VM to the packet processing software of the hypervisor; and forwarding, by the packet processing software, the traffic to a destination.