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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vipin Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Suran Saminda de Silva, Saratoga, CA (US);
Chiajen Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Debashis Patnala Rao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Palathingal Frank, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Shyam Kapadia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Gopal Krishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A leaf switch of a switch fabric includes multiple ports to connect with respective ones of multiple servers. Virtual local area networks (VLANs) are configured on the leaf switch. Dynamic creation of virtual ports is enabled on the leaf switch for at least one of the VLANs on an as needed basis. The leaf switch receives from a particular server connected to a corresponding one of the ports a notification message that a virtual machine is hosted on the particular server. Responsive to the notification message, the leaf switch dynamically creates a virtual port that associates the corresponding one of the ports with the at least one of the VLANs.