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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Venkata R. K. Addanki, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sadasivudu Malladi, San Jose, CA (US);
Chi L. Chong, Fremont, CA (US);
Kiran K. Gavini, Mountain View, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a virtual network module and a forwarding module. The virtual network module includes a global virtual local area network (VLAN) tag in a packet. The global VLAN tag is mapped to an edge VLAN tag in the packet and is associated with a datacenter domain. The datacenter domain indicates a set of ports associated with a datacenter. The forwarding module identifies an egress edge port for the packet based on the global VLAN tag.