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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Chandrasekar Srinivasan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neha Aggarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Deven Jagasia, Kirkland, WA (US);
Fengfen Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Karthik Ananthakrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);
Avijit Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Ganesh Srinivasan, Redmond, WA (US);
Nisheeth Srivastava, Redmond, WA (US);
Rishabh Tewari, Sammamish, WA (US);
Michal Czeslaw Zygmunt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Bothell, WA (US);
Gabriel Silva, Redmond, WA (US);
Naveen Prabhat, Redmond, WA (US);
Sumit Sharad Dhoble, Redmond, WA (US);
Xinyan Zan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Maitrey Kumar, Redmond, WA (US);
Wei Xia, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed system implements techniques to enable a tenant of a cloud-based platform to effectively and efficiently apply a policy that copies data packets communicated to or from a virtual machine in the tenant's own virtual network. When applied, the policy mirrors data traffic associated with a workload executing on a virtual machine in the tenant's virtual network. To mirror the data traffic, a copy of a data packet is streamed to another virtual machine so that network analytics can be performed (e.g., performance analytics, security analytics, etc.). In various examples, the policy can be a role-based mirroring policy that defines a plurality of roles in association with a role-based access model that scales operations and that provides improved security for a tenant's virtual network.