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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Muhammad Durrani, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayanthi Jayaraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Syed Hashim Iqbal, San Jose, CA (US);
Janardhana Achladi, San Jose, CA (US);
Rizwan Jamal, San Jose, CA (US);
John Hanahan, Saratoga, CA (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation in network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI). In one example, an orchestration system is operated by a data center provider for a data center and that orchestration system comprises processing circuitry coupled to a memory; logic stored in the memory and configured for execution by the processing circuitry, wherein the logic is operative to: compute an aggregate bandwidth for a plurality of flows associated with a tenant of the data center provider and processed by a virtual network function, assigned to the tenant, executing on a server of the data center; and modify, based on the aggregate bandwidth, an allocation of compute resources of the server executing the virtual network function.