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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raja Kommula, Cupertino, CA (US);
Constantine Polychronopoulos, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thayumanavan Sridhar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc-Andre Bordeleau, Shawinigan, CA;
Edward Choh, Richmond, CA;
Ojas Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Kidd, Champaign, IL (US);
Georgios Oikonomou, Patras, GR;
Jeremy Tidemann, Urbana, IL (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network. For a received data message flow, the method has the HFE identify a network slice associated with the received data message flow. This network slice in some embodiments is associated with a set of operations to be performed on the data message by several network elements, including one or more machines executing on one or more computers in the network. Once the network slice is identified, the method has the HFE process the data message flow based on a rule that applies to data messages associated with the identified slice.