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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sachin Vijay Vishwarupe, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Kushal A. Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Mouli Vytla, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example, there is disclosed a network apparatus, comprising: one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware logic element, to provide a network manager engine to: provide a switched fabric management function; communicatively couple to at least one network switch, the network switch configured to provide optional native hardware-based load balancing; monitor one or more load balancing factors; and at least partly responsive to the one or more load balancing factors, configure native hardware-based load balancing on the at least one network switch.