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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vipin Dravid, Fremont, CA (US);
Varun Ponkshe, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual network function (VNF) management system includes a computer-executable set of instructions to deploy a VNF using one or more resources allocated for use by the VNF in which the one or more resources are allocated by communicating with a resource manager that manages the one or more resources. The system then receives a request from a user interface to un-deploy the VNF, and un-deploys the VNF while keeping the resources allocated for use by the VNF. At a later time, the system can then receive a request to restore the VNF from the user interface, and deploy the VNF again using the allocated resources.