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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Senthilkumar Karunakaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chidambareswaran Raman, Campbell, CA (US);
Meenakshi Sundaram Selvaraj, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Subin Cyriac Mathew, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of transmitting multicast traffic to workloads of tenants communicating over overlay networks provisioned on top of a physical network includes the steps of: detecting the multicast traffic; determining that the multicast traffic is bound for workloads of a first tenant and workloads of a second tenant; encapsulating one instance of the multicast traffic using a Layer 2 (L2) over Layer 3 (L3) encapsulation protocol to generate encapsulated traffic, wherein the encapsulated traffic includes an identifier of a first backplane network corresponding to the first tenant and an identifier of a second backplane network corresponding to the second tenant in a header portion of each packet of the encapsulated traffic; and transmitting, to a first host computing device, the encapsulated traffic with the identifiers of the first and second overlay networks.