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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Saurabh Jain, Fremont, CA (US);
Vijay K. Chander, San Ramon, CA (US);
Vijayan Ramakrishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ronak K. Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Praveen Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Munish Mehta, Fremont, CA (US);
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The techniques presented herein use dynamic endpoint group (EPG) binding changes to facilitate cross-tenant resource sharing. A first node of a multi-tenant software defined network determines that an application on a first endpoint has initiated operation and needs temporary access to resources located at a second endpoint. The first and second endpoints are associated with first and second tenants, respectively, that are logically segregated from one another by the software defined network. The first node dynamically changes an initial EPG binding associated with the first endpoint to a second EPG binding that enables the first endpoint to temporarily directly access the resources at the second endpoint. The first node subsequently determines that the application on the first endpoint no longer needs access to the resources located at a second endpoint and, as such, changes the second EPG binding associated with the first endpoint back to the initial EPG binding.