Vmware, Inc.

Shankar Vilayannur

Rajiv Mordani

Ashish Patel

Vinith Podduturi

Ashish Shendure

Tea Liukkonen-Olmiala

Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy

Suresh Nagar

Some embodiments provide a novel method for receiving a plurality of attribute sets from a set of host computers, each attribute set associated with a group of one or more flows that is created by using a key to associate individual flows into the group of flows. The appliance, in some embodiments, merges two identified attribute sets into one merged attribute set and analyzes the merged attribute set to identify a set of properties of the flows in the groups of flows associated with the two attribute sets. In some embodiments, a visualization process includes identifying machines as members of groups and identifying machines that are connected. The visualization process, in some embodiments, also generates a graphical user interface that can be used to select groups of machines, domains, or individual machines and displays contextual attributes relevant to the selected group, domain, or machine.

Presenting data regarding grouped flows

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Shankar Vilayannur