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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jinto Antony, Bangalore, IN;
Sudhish P. T., Bangalore, IN;
Madhusudhanan Gangadharan, Bangalore, IN;
Sudhier Batara, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for centralized management of network switch operations across multiple virtualization platforms via a 'spanned distributed virtual switch.' These techniques generally include creating a distributed virtual switch for each virtual platform that participates in the spanned distributed virtual switch, configuring each such distributed virtual switch with a mutually exclusive set of ports, configuring each distributed virtual switch with network configuration information for associated sets of ports, and synchronizing the network configuration information across distributed virtual switches. When configuration information changes in one distributed virtual switch, those changes are synchronized across other distributed virtual switches that participate in the spanned distributed virtual switch. A computer system, method, and computer-readable medium are provided herein.