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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2016
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ganesh Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Chirag Wighe, Milpitas, CA (US);
Santhanakrishnan Balraj, Dublin, CA (US);
Sathish M. Shenoy, San Jose, CA (US);
Shunmugavel Rajarathinam, Alviso, CA (US);
Sumanth R. Kamatala, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A device may receive an indication to perform a reboot associated with a network service being provided using a first virtual machine (VM) running on the device. The device may launch, based on receiving the indication, a second VM on the device. The device may shut down, based on launching the second VM, the first VM. The device may configure the second VM for forwarding control plane traffic associated with the network service. The device may configure, based on configuring the second VM for forwarding the control plane traffic, the second VM for forwarding data plane traffic associated with the network service. The device may provide, based on configuring the second VM for forwarding the data plane traffic, the network service using the second VM.