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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Shekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Quaizar Vohra, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael O'Gorman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Aleksandar Ratkovic, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jean-Marc Frailong, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shesha Sreenivasamurthy, Fremont, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a scheduler disposed at a control device of a switch fabric system. The scheduler is configured to receive a control plane request associated with the switch fabric system having a data plane and a control plane separate from the data plane. The scheduler is configured to designate a control plane entity based on the control plane request and state information of each control plane entity from a set of control plane entities associated with the control plane and instantiated as a virtual machine. The scheduler is configured to send a signal to a compute device of the switch fabric system in response to the control plane request such that the control plane entity is instantiated as a virtual machine at the compute device.