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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Liang Cui, Beijing, CN;
Todd Sabin, Morganville, NJ (US);
Weiqing Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Siddharth Sudhir Ekbote, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for diagnosing a data plane of a network, wherein the network spans a first data center and a second data center, and wherein the second data center is remote to the first, the method comprising: accessing a secure connection between the first data center and the second data center; modifying, by the first performance controller, firewall settings of the first data center from a first setting to a second setting; opening on the second data center an instance of a performance tool; opening on the first data center a client of the instance of the performance tool; sending data packets over the data plane of the network; receiving the data packets; generating metrics associated with the data packets; and modifying firewall settings of the first data center from the second setting to the first setting.