Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sheng Lu

Xinyan Zan

Daniel Max Firestone

Harish Kumar Chandrappa

Anil A Ingle

Jayesh Kumaran

Young Lee

Deepak Bansal

David A Maltz

Lihua Yuan

Leiwen Deng

Anil Ingle

A DHCP server implementation includes transmission of a DHCP packet from a virtual machine executing on a server node to a node agent executing on the server node, generation, by the node agent, of a DHCP response packet based on the DHCP packet and on DHCP information previously stored in a local memory of the server node, and transmission of the DHCP response packet from the node agent to the virtual machine. Neither the DHCP packet transmitted by the virtual machine nor the DHCP response packet are transmitted out of the server node.

On-node DHCP implementation for virtual machines

Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a virtualized computing environment. A packet to be captured in the virtualized environment is identified. The packet is tagged using a pattern of one or more bits in a header of the packet. The pattern indicates that the packet is to be traced. The pattern is propagated to an outer layer during encapsulation of the packet. A header of the encapsulated packet includes the pattern of one or more bits. At least one network device is caused to mirror identified packets based on the reserved bit.

Packet capture via packet tagging

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