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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2016
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kaushal Bansal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Uday Masurekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of configuring networking, security, and operational parameters of workloads deployed in a virtualized computing environment includes the steps of: storing multiple policies, each defining one of networking, security, or operational parameters, and associating tags to each of the multiple policies, independent of deployment of a virtual computing instance in the virtual computing environment; responsive to a request to perform configuration of a virtual computing instance being deployed, retrieving policies among the stored multiple policies that are associated with same tags as tags contained in the request; generating configuration parameters for data path components in a host machine of the virtual computing instance and for data path components of the virtual computing instance based on the retrieved policies; and transmitting the generated configuration parameters to the host machine for the host machine to configure the networking, security, or operational parameters the virtual computing instance therewith.