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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Babu Nataraja, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US);
Lei Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nilesh Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a top-of-rack ('TOR') switch a notification concerning a virtual machine ('VM'), wherein the received notification identifies a host associated with the VM; determining whether the identified host is directly connected to the TOR switch; and if the identified host is not directly connected to the TOR switch, identifying an intermediate switch to which the identified host is directly connected; and determining whether the identified intermediate switch to which the identified host is directly attached is attached to the TOR switch.