METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED CUSTOMIZED DATA PLANE PROCESSING IN A DATA CENTER

• US 20160094668A1
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Chang, Hyunseok, Lakshman, T.V., Mukherjee, Sarit, Wang, Limin
• Application Number:
  US14/499,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20160094668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing data plane services in a data center include receiving a request for a data plane service from a tenant of a host in the data center. In response to receiving the request, a service process is instantiated at the host for performing the data plane service for a virtual machine of the tenant.

Claims

1. A method for providing data plane services in a data center, comprising:

receiving a request for a data plane service from a tenant of a host in the data center; and

in response to receiving the request, instantiating a service process at the host, the service process providing the data plane service for a virtual machine of the tenant.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring a switch of the host to route traffic based on the data plane service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein all communication between virtual machines of the tenant passes through the switch.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

synchronizing a state of the service process with other service processes of the host.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein synchronizing comprises:

employing a distributed synchronization protocol to synchronize the state of the service process with other service processes of the host.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein synchronizing comprises:

coordinating synchronization using a central controller of the data center.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein instantiating is by a central controller of the data center.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein data plane services include at least one of mirroring, chaining, and splitting traffic.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the service process includes a service virtual machine.

10. A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions for providing data plane services in a data center, which, when executed on a processor, enable the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a data plane service from a tenant of a host in the data center; and

in response to receiving the request, instantiating a service process at the host, the service process providing the data plane service for a virtual machine of the tenant.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

configuring a switch of the host to route traffic based on the data plane service.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

synchronizing a state of the service process with other service processes of the host.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein data plane services include at least one of mirroring, chaining, and splitting traffic.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory to store computer program instructions for providing data plane services in a data center, the computer program instructions when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request for a data plane service from a tenant of a host in the data center; and

in response to receiving the request, instantiating a service process at the host, the service process providing the data plane service for a virtual machine of the tenant.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, the operations further comprising:

configuring a switch of the host to route traffic based on the data plane service.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein all communication between virtual machines of the tenant passes through the switch.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, the operations further comprising:

synchronizing a state of the service process with other service processes of the host.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the synchronizing operation comprises:

employing a distributed synchronization protocol to synchronize the state of the service process with other service processes of the host.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the synchronizing operation comprises:

coordinating synchronization using a central controller of the data center.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein instantiating is by a central controller of the data center.