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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Casimer M. DeCusatis, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Mircea Gusat, Langnau, CH;
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Cyriel J. Minkenberg, Gutenswil, CH;
Vijoy A. Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to providing virtual network domain movement operations for overlay networks. One embodiment includes a method that includes determining one or more overlay network attributes (ONAs) for a plurality of virtual networks. The one or more ONAs are associated with the virtual networks. The one or more ONAs are managed as one or more portable entities by one or more of creating ONAs, deleting ONAs, moving ONAs, combining ONAs and dividing ONAs. A movement operation is performed on the one or more virtual networks among one or more servers of one or more overlay networks based on the management of the one or more ONAs.