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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2008
Michael R. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanakumar Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Anthony Fazzone, San Jose, CA (US);
Shriram Velaga, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paul Harry Gleichauf, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark A. Bakke, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Michael R. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanakumar Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Anthony Fazzone, San Jose, CA (US);
Shriram Velaga, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paul Harry Gleichauf, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark A. Bakke, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In a virtual infrastructure, a single appliance is provided that hosts a centralized virtual machine monitor (VMM) control plane to effectively establish a single virtual switch across all virtual machines within one or more clusters of servers, thereby reducing the number of management points for the network administrator and facilitating easier VM migration.