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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2013
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amar Padmanabhan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeremy Stribling, San Francisco, CA (US);
W. Andrew Lambeth, San Mateo, CA (US);
Natasha Gude, San Francisco, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for upgrading a set of controller nodes in a controller cluster that manages a plurality of forwarding elements in a way that minimizes dataplane outages. The method of some embodiments upgrades the control applications of a subset of the controller nodes before upgrading a decisive controller node. Once the decisive controller node is upgraded, the method switches the controller cluster to use a new version of the control applications.
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