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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bhalachandra G. Banavalikar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amitabha Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes forwarding a request to a distributed overlay virtual Ethernet (DOVE) connectivity service (DCS) cluster for tunnel information by a source switch. In response to the request for tunnel information, the tunnel information and end point information are received. A common tunnel type supported by the source switch and a destination switch is selected. A packet is encapsulated with the common tunnel type supported by the source switch and the destination switch for a destination virtual machine (VM).