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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2010
Udayakumar Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Srinivas Sardar, Fremont, CA (US);
Joseph Michaelsamy Swaminathan, Union City, CA (US);
Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Udayakumar Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Srinivas Sardar, Fremont, CA (US);
Joseph Michaelsamy Swaminathan, Union City, CA (US);
Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for identifying destinations in a virtual network by defining virtual entities such as a port profile as the destination for network policies, such as redirect or span to be a logical set of ports (i.e., ports belonging to a port-profile or a port group) where the members of the set of ports may be added/removed dynamically without requiring any changes to the network policy. Further, a network administrator (or other user) may predefine the destinations for a network policy even before some or all of the destinations are active on a given virtualized system. In such cases, the network policies may go into effect when the required entities become available.