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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianjun Shen, Beijing, CN;
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Donghai Han, Beijing, CN;
Jingchun Jason Jiang, Beijing, CN;
Wenyi Jiang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ayyappan Veeraiyan, Cupertino, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of creating containers in a physical host that includes a managed forwarding element (MFE) configured to forward packets to and from a set of data compute nodes (DCNs) hosted by the physical host. The method creates a container DCN in the host. The container DCN includes a virtual network interface card (VNIC) configured to exchange packets with the MFE. The method creates a plurality of containers in the container DCN. The method, for each container in the container DCN, creates a corresponding port on the MFE. The method sends packets addressed to each of the plurality of containers from the corresponding MFE port to the VNIC of the container DCN.