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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2018
Illumio, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Antonio Pedro Alexandre Rainha Dias, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joel E. Vanderkwaak, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bryan Patrick Pelham, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Mukesh Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Juraj George Fandli, Campbell, CA (US);
Charles Zou Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thukalan V. Verghese, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul James Kirner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Illumio, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A segmentation system includes a cluster of segmentation servers that interoperate to obtain and manage a segmentation policy for controlling communications between workloads in an administrative domain. The cluster of segmentation servers includes a leader segmentation server and at least one member segmentation server. The leader segmentation server controls policy generation and distributes the segmentation policy to the member segmentation servers. The segmentation servers are each optionally paired with a respective set of workloads. The segmentation servers each distribute descriptions of their respective paired workloads to the other segmentation servers. Each segmentation server processes the segmentation policy to generate management instructions for controlling communications to and from their respective paired workloads and distributes the management instructions to the operating system instances executing the workloads to enforce the segmentation policy. The cluster of segmentation servers beneficially enables a segmentation system with high scalability, reliability, and efficiency.