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Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kiron Haltore, San Jose, CA (US);

Srinivas Srikanth Podilla, Bangalore, IN;

Vivek Kalyanaraman, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04L 61/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Providing high availability in a distributed networking platform includes detecting that an original primary service engine is unavailable, wherein: the original primary service engine and a plurality of secondary service engines are configured to provide one or more network applications associated with a virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address; the original primary service engine and the plurality of secondary service engines are in active-active configuration mode; and the original primary service engine is configured to respond to Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests designating the VIP address. Additionally, providing high availability in a distributed networking platform further includes determining that a controller is unavailable; and configuring a selected secondary service engine as the next primary service engine.


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