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Patent No.:

US 11258729 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2019

Deploying a software defined networking (sdn) solution on a host using a single active uplink

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rishi Kanth Alapati, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Subin Cyriac Mathew, San Jose, CA (US);

Chidambareswaran Raman, Campbell, CA (US);

Amit Aneja, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Patterson + Sheridan, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Guang W Li

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 49/356 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 49/30 (2013.01); H04L 49/356 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure provides an approach for deploying an software defined networking (SDN) solution on a host using a single virtual switch and a single active network interface card (NIC) to handle overlay traffic and also other types of network traffic, such as traffic between management components of the logical overlay networks, traffic of a virtual storage area network (VSAN), traffic used to move VMs between hosts, traffic associated with VMKernel services or network stacks provided by a VMKernel that is provided as part of the hypervisor on the host, a gateway device that may be implemented as a VCI on the host, and different SDN-related components, such as an SDN manager implementing the MP and an SDN controller implementing the CP, etc.

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Alapati, Rishi. (2022). Deploying a software defined networking (sdn) solution on a host using a single active uplink (U.S. Patent No. 11258729). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11258729

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