Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Mark A Pearson

Paul T Congdon

David Andrew Graves

Charles L Hudson

Stephen G Low

Ted T Nguyen

Margaret Mary Bertsch

Narendra Lakshminarasimha

Vikram Ramesh

Pallavi Gadepalli

George Tomlinson

Embodiments of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for network virtualization can include providing, by a datacenter () having physical and/or virtual resources, a number of virtual tenant datacenters (tDatacenters), each tDatacenter being isolated from other tDatacenters. A tenant virtual local area network (T-VLAN) () is associated to each of the number of tDatacenters, and a value of an end-to-end invariant network virtual local area network (VLAN) identification (VID) label (T-VID) is associated to a particular T-VLAN (). A network packet associated with the particular T-VLAN () is modified at an edge network boundary () to include the T-VID. The T-VID is configured to have more than 4096 possible values.

Network virtualization

Methods and systems for verifying that devices in a network are properly connected physically are described. A listing is received from a device in the network. The listing identifies other devices coupled to the device and also identifies which communication port of the device each of the other devices is coupled to. The listing is compared against reference information representing the design of the network. Discrepancies between the listing and the reference information are identified.

Verification of connections between devices in a network

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Mark A Pearson