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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2011
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lawrence Mcgoff Matter, Millbrae, CA (US);
Alok Rishi, Millbrae, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lawrence McGoff Matter, Millbrae, CA (US);
Alok Rishi, Millbrae, CA (US);
Coraid, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of scaling a cloud computing network are disclosed. A virtual switch receives a data packet from a virtual machine. The virtual machine and the virtual switch can be implemented on the same host device. The virtual switch can remove the virtual MAC address from the data packet. The virtual switch can then include a physical MAC address or a synthetic MAC address of a target host. A synthetic MAC address can be utilized for multicast traffic where want to associate a separate MAC with each tenant of the host. The data packet can be sent to a target host.