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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2023
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierluigi Rolando, San Marcos, CA (US);
Subramanyam Manuguri, Saratoga, CA (US);
Raju Koganty, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuxiao Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhila Naveen, Campbell, CA (US);
Mani Prasad Kancherla, Cupertino, CA (US);
Srinivas Ramaswamy, Dublin, CA (US);
Jayakrishnan Chathu, San Jose, CA (US);
Krishna Chaitanya Bandi, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Hui Zheng, Great Neck, NY (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method of packet processing in a host cluster of a virtualized computing system includes: receiving traffic at packet processing software of a hypervisor executing on a host of the host cluster; processing the traffic using a network service of the packet processing software in the hypervisor; redirecting the traffic to a service virtual machine (VM) in the host cluster through a virtual network interface card (vNIC) of the service VM; sending metadata from the network service of the packet processing software to the service VM; processing the traffic and the metadata through at least one network service executing in the service VM; returning the traffic from the service VM to the packet processing software of the hypervisor; and forwarding, by the packet processing software, the traffic to a destination.