公开(公告)号：US12101242B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US17396861

申请日：2021-08-09

Applicant: VMware LLC

Inventor： Ambarish Prashant Pande ,  Devraj Narendra Baheti ,  Avinash Nigam ,  Vishal Ranjan ,  Prahalad Deshpande

IPC: H04L45/021 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L61/255 ,  H04L67/1031

CPC classification number: H04L45/021 ,  H04L45/38 ,  H04L45/72 ,  H04L61/255 ,  H04L67/1031

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally involve identifying workloads in a multi-site networking environment. Embodiments include determining that a given network is stretched across a first network segment at a first site and a second network segment at a second site. Embodiments include creating a stretched administrative domain for the given network and mapping an address of the given network to the stretched administrative domain in a lookup table for an administrative domain associated with the first network segment. Embodiments include receiving a flow record from an observation point in the first network segment, the flow record having a source IP address associated with the second network segment and a destination IP address associated with the first network segment. Embodiments include identifying a source workload and destination workload of the flow record using the lookup table and a workload identification table that maps combinations of IP addresses and administrative domains to workloads.