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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
May. 16, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chidambareswaran Raman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Subin Cyriac Mathew, San Jose, CA (US);
Li Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a novel method for migrating a virtual machine (VM) from a first host computer to a second host computer in a software-defined network (SDN) when a set of controllers of the SDN, that configures several forwarding elements in the SDN to implement one LFE, is unavailable. The second host receives information regarding the VM from the first host. The VM is associated with the LFE. The second host retrieves, from a local data store of the second host, configuration information for configuring at least one software forwarding element executing on the second host to implement the LFE. The configuration information was previously received from the controller set when it was available to pre-configure the second host to implement the LFE without assistance from the controller set when the VM migrates to the second host. The second host uses the received information for the VM and the retrieved configuration information for the LFE to instantiate the VM on the second host without requesting any information from the controller set.