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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Santhosh Sundararaman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jia Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mark Pariente, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract
A port is dynamically added to and removed from a virtual switch. The new port may be allocated when there is sufficient free memory in a pool of memory associated with the virtual switch. When an existing port is deallocated, the portion of the pool of memory allocated to that existing port is freed up. As a result, a virtual machine that requires one or more ports on the virtual switch may be provisioned on a host so long as the pool of memory is sized properly and memory usage on the host is not excessive.