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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Force10 Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wanqun Bao, San Jose, CA (US);
Shivakumar Sundaram, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Ravikumar Sivasankar, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Avinash Natarajan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Pathangi Narasimhan Janardhanan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A port provision system includes a packet network device having a plurality of ports. A port provisioning system is coupled to the packet network device. The port provisioning system obtains configuration information from a host device coupled to the packet network device. The configuration information includes a virtual network identification assigned to a virtual machine included on the host device. The port provisioning system then retrieves packet information from a packet sent form the host device. The port provisioning system then provisions at least one of the plurality of ports with the virtual network identification included in the configuration information in response to determining that the packet information matches the configuration information.