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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10481933 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2014

Enabling virtual machines access to switches configured by different management entities

Applicant:

Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);

ChiHsiang Su, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Jia Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Piyush Kothari, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Nilesh Ramchandra Nipane, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:

Adeli LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jeffrey R Swearingen

Assistant Examiner:

Messeret F Gebre

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); G06F 11/1484 (2013.01); G06F 11/2035 (2013.01); G06F 11/2097 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of configuring a plurality of logical forwarding elements (LFEs) on a physical computing device comprising virtualization software and a plurality of data compute nodes (DCNs) is provided. The method provisions a first LFE configured and managed by a network manager of a datacenter on the physical computing device, the first LFE for performing OSI L3)packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the first LFE comprising a plurality of logical ports configured and managed by the network manager, each logical port of the first LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager. The method provisions a second LFE configured and managed by a compute manager of the datacenter on the physical computing device, the second LFE for performing OSI L3 packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the second LFE comprising a plurality of logical port groups configured and managed by the compute manager, each logical port of the second LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager. The method configures a first DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager through a port of the first LFE. The method configures a second DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager through a port of the second LFE.

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