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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Pune, IN;
Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Pune, IN;
Sachin Thakkar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Debashis Basak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more embodiments provide a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center. A method includes: establishing a communication link between a first firewall server in the first virtual data center and a second firewall server in the second virtual data center over a network, the first firewall server having a first firewall defined by polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center; obtaining, at the first firewall server, an inventory of objects in the second virtual data center from the second firewall server; determining firewall rule tuples by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in the inventory of the second virtual data center; and sending the firewall rule tuples to enforcement points in the second virtual data center.