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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganes Kumar Arumugam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex N. Tessmer, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Harish Kanakaraju, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC>, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for an overlay broadcast network for management traffic. Techniques are provided for updating an underlay network route for a virtual computing instance (VCI) on a new host. After activating the VCI on the new host, a routing table on the old host is reprogrammed to associate an Internet protocol (IP) address of the VCI to an overlay broadcast network IP address and a routing table on the new host is reprogramed to associate the first IP address to a local route on the new host. The VCI sends a message to an application programming interface (API) endpoint to initiate reprogramming of an underlay network route to associate the first IP address to the new host. When a response packet is received at the old host, via the underlay network, the old host broadcasts the packet to the overlay broadcast network.