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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sachin Mohan Vaidya, Pune, IN;
Ujwala Kawalay, Pune, IN;
Amarnath Palavalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bhagyashree Gujar, Pune, IN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a service rule that is to be enforced across a first set of sites and that is defined by reference to a group identifier that identifies a group of machines. The method distributes the service rule to each site in the first set of sites. The method identifies at least one site in the first set of sites that is not in a second set of sites that has already received a definition of the group. The method distributes the group definition to each identified site in the first set of sites that has not already received the definition of the group.