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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mukesh Hira, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Su Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Akshay Katrekar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Campbell, CA (US);
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to deploying a proxy control plane and/or north-south data plane in a control virtual private cloud of a logical network implemented on a software-defined datacenter. The control virtual private cloud is shared by a plurality of compute virtual private clouds of the network. In some embodiments, a proxy control plane is deployed on the control virtual private cloud and disseminates policies directly to endpoints of the logical network. In some embodiments, a north-south data plane is deployed on the control virtual private cloud and directly manages north-south network traffic from endpoints of the logical network. In some embodiments, a proxy control plane and a north-south network data plane are deployed on the control virtual private cloud.