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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Surendra M. Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jeffrey Napper, CL Delft, NL;
Prashant Patadayya Hiremath, San Jose, CA (US);
Vandana Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes creating a catalog of service function ('SF') profiles, wherein each of the profiles is associated with an SF and indicates a type of the associated SF; storing the catalog of SF profiles in a memory device of a service controller associated with the DVS; creating a service profile group template ('SPGT') that includes at least one SF profile from the catalog of SF profiles, wherein the SPGT includes a service chain definition identifying at least one service chain comprising the SF associated with the at least one SF profile to be executed in connection with a service path and at least one policy for classifying traffic to the at least one service chain; deploying a first SPG instance based on the SPGT; and deploying an additional SPG instance based on the SPGT in accordance with a scaling policy included in the SPGT.