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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Murukanandam K. Panchalingam, Dublin, CA (US);
Umamaheswararao Karyampudi, Fremont, CA (US);
Muralidhar Annabatula, Dublin, CA (US);
Darpan R. Kathoke, Milpitas, CA (US);
Junyun Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides for application-centric enforcement for multi-tenant workloads with multi-site data center fabrics by: receiving, at a local switch at a first site, a packet from a first host at the first site intended for a second host located at a second site; identifying class identifiers (ID) for the hosts; determining, based on the class IDs, a security policy for transmitting data between the hosts; in response to determining that the security policy indicates that the second site exclusively manages security policies for the hosts' network: setting a policy applied indicator on the packet indicating that enforcement of the security policy is delegated from the first switch to a second switch connected to the second host; including the class IDs in the packet; and transmitting the packet to the second site.