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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin Casado, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Stribling, San Francisco, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A network control system that includes several controllers for managing several switching elements. In some embodiments, each switching element implements at least one logical switching element and has a master controller. In some embodiments, at least one controller is a master of at least two switching elements. The network control system accepts definitions of the logical switching elements and, in some embodiments, each logical switching element has a master controller. In some embodiments, at least one controller is a master for at least two logical switching elements.