Cisco Technology, Inc.

Yichen Wang

Ian James Wells

Vasudevan Mahalingam

Rajiv Asati

Om Prakash Suthar

Santanu Dasgupta

John Wei-I Wu

Chandragupta Ganguly

Vinod Pandarinathan

Ajay Kalambur

A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.

Supporting overlay networks for multiple autonomous systems and underlays

A system is provided that includes one management cluster to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) resources lifecycle in more than one edge POD locations, where resources include hardware and/or software, and where software resources lifecycle includes software development, upgrades, downgrades, logging, monitoring etc. Methods are provided for decoupling storage from compute and network functions in each virtual machine (VM)-based NFVI deployment location and moving it to a centralized location. Centralized storage could simultaneously interact with more than one edge PODs, and the security is built-in with periodic key rotation. Methods are provided for increasing NFVI system viability by dedicating (fencing) CPU core pairs for specific controller operations and workload operations, and sharing the CPU cores for specific tasks.

Virtual infrastructure manager enhancements for remote edge cloud deployments

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Yichen Wang