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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2021
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Horia Vlad Balan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zengbin Zhang, Seattle, WA (US);
Amin Vahdat, Los Altos, CA (US);
Vinay Kumar Bannai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander Jinhon Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Anvesh Komuravelli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven Gribble, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew DeBock Ferguson, New York, NY (US);
Muhammad Mukarram Tariq, San Jose, CA (US);
Joon Ong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alvaro Martinez Echevarria, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically changing a network system. A method includes receiving a set of first intents that describe a state of a first switch fabric; receiving a set of second intents that describe a state of a second switch fabric; computing a set of network operations to perform on the first switch fabric to achieve the second switch fabric, the set of operations also defining an order in which the operations are to be executed, and the set of operations determined based on the set of first intents, the set of second intents, and migration logic that defines a ruleset for selecting the operations based on the set of first intents and the second intents; and executing the set of network operations according to the order, to apply changes to elements within the first switch fabric to achieve the state of the second switch fabric.