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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Casimer M. DeCusatis, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Mircea Gusat, Langnau, CH;

Vinit Jain, Williamson, TX (US);

Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);

Cyriel J. Minkenberg, Gutenswil, CH;

Vijoy A. Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);

Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes associating overlay network attributes (ONAs) with overlay virtual networks. The ONAs are managed as portable entities. A movement operation is performed on components of at least one overlay virtual network of the overlay virtual networks to servers based on management of the ONAs. An ONA is modified to identify attributes associated with the movement operation of the components of the at least one overlay virtual network.


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