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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anupam Chanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Jianjun Shen, Beijing, CN;
Hua Wang, Beijing, CN;
Ziyou Wang, Beijing, CN;
HsinYi Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Sarvani Vakkalanka, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Cupertino, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a managed hardware forwarding element (MHFE) controller that serves as an intermediary between one or more central controllers in a central control plane (CCP) cluster and one or more third-party hardware devices (e.g., physical switches and routers, applicances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc.). The MHFE controller of some embodiments uses (i) a first protocol to communicate with the CCP cluster and (ii) a second protocol to communicate with the one or more third-party devices managed by the MHFE controller, thereby enabling the CCP cluster to distribute logical network configuration information to the physical workloads (e.g., third-party servers connected to a third-party Top of Rack (TOR) switch).