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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2020
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Murali Basavaiah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ranganathan Rajagopalan, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 67/1029 (2013.01); H04L 67/2861 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
Providing a distributed network service includes: receiving network traffic at a first physical device; and executing a service engine to participate in the distributed network service. The distributed network service is provided to at least the first target application instance executing in a first VM on the first physical device, and a second target application instance executing in a second VM on a second physical device; and a shared state of the distributed network service is maintained with respect to the first physical device and the second physical device.