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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jeffrey R Hoy, Southern Pines, SC (US);
Sreekanth R Iyer, Bangalore, IN;
Kaushal K Kapadia, Pune, IN;
Ravi K Muthukrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Nataraj Nagaratnam, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for managing a plurality of VPN tunnels between a first cloud and a second cloud in a hybrid cloud environment is described. In a first virtual private network (VPN) manager a request is received from a first cloud application resident in the first cloud. The request includes a first set of requirements for a first VPN tunnel in the plurality of VPN tunnels. The VPN manager sends a first VPN manager request to a first system in a first cloud, wherein the first system creates the first VPN tunnel according to the first set of requirements. The VPN manager receives a request from a second cloud application resident in the first cloud. The request includes a second set of requirements for a VPN tunnel in the plurality of VPN tunnels. The VPN manager sends a second VPN manager request to the system in a first cloud, wherein the second VPN manager request contains the second set of requirements. The second VPN manager request is either tuning the first VPN tunnel according to both the first and second set of requirements if the first and second requirements are compatible or creating a second VPN tunnel between the first node and the second node if the first and second requirements are not compatible, the second VPN tunnel created by the first system.