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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaohu Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ajeet Pal Singh Gill, Fremont, CA (US);
Srilatha Tangirala, San Jose, CA (US);
Nithin Bangalore Raju, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Prabahar Radhakrishnan, Dublin, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Campbell, CA (US);
Balaji Sundararajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for allocating resources of a virtual controller is disclosed. The method comprises: allocating resources of a virtual controller to a first tenant, wherein the first tenant is allocated a first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources of the virtual controller and a second tenant is allocated a second tenant quantity of guaranteed resources of the virtual controller; determining that resources requested by the first tenant are greater than the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources; determining that the virtual controller has unutilized resources sufficient to at least partially provide additional resources beyond the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources to the first tenant; and temporarily provisioning the additional resources to the first tenant, wherein the additional resources are greater than the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources.