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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
May. 14, 2011
Amitabha Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);
John I. Buswell, Athens, OH (US);
Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, CA (US);
Harshad S. Padhye, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Dorit Rond, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amitabha Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);
John I. Buswell, Athens, OH (US);
Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, CA (US);
Harshad S. Padhye, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Dorit Rond, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing location independent dynamic port mirroring on distributed virtual switches is disclosed. A controller is provided to configure one or more virtual switches within a group of physical machines to appear as a set of distributed virtual switches. In response to the receipt of a data packet at a port of a physical machine, a determination is made whether or not the port has a monitor port located on the physical machine. If the port has a monitor port located on the same physical machine, a copy of the data packet is sent to the monitor port of the physical machine. If the port has a monitor port located on a different physical machine, a copy of the data packet along with an identification (ID) of the port and an ID of the monitor port are encapsulated, and the encapsulated information are sent to a controller.