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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Li Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aravinda Kidambi Srinivasan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deepika Kalani, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xiaozheng Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yang Ping, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of recording layer-2 (L2) mappings created for workloads executing on a plurality of hosts in a first database managed by a network management server: upon receipt of a first mapping reported by a first host, determining that the first mapping is not recorded in the first database; and in response to the determining that the received first mapping is not recorded in the first database, generating a first timestamp and persisting a first record in the first database that includes the first mapping and the first timestamp.