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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Avijit Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Rishabh Tewari, Sammamish, WA (US);
Deepak Bansal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Weixi Chen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Venkata Satish Katta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alfonso De La Morena, Austin, TX (US);
Arun Jeedigunta Venkata Satya, Seattle, WA (US);
Zexuan Zhao, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kaixiang Miao, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
High availability network services are provided in a in a virtual computing environment comprising a plurality of network devices running in a software defined network (SDN) of the virtual computing environment, the network devices comprising a plurality of SDN appliances configured to disaggregate enforcement of policies of the SDN from hosts of the virtual computing environment, the hosts implemented on servers communicatively coupled to network interfaces of the SDN appliances, the servers hosting a plurality of virtual machines, the SDN appliance comprising a plurality of smart network interface cards (fNICs) configured to implement functionality of the SDN appliances.