SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR IMPLEMENTING TENANT SPECIFIC POLICY
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, at a software defined network (SDN) controller, a tagged initialization packet from an SDN enabled switch;
identifying, at the SDN controller, a tenant corresponding to the tagged initialization packet, the tenant being one of a plurality of tenants;
identifying, at the SDN controller, a policy specific to the identified tenant; and
implementing, by the SDN controller, the policy specific to the identified tenant.
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Abstract
Example implementations may relate to a software defined networking (SDN) controller. A method may include receiving, at a SDN controller, a tagged initialization packet from a software defined network enabled switch. The method may include identifying, at the SDN controller, a tenant corresponding to or based on the tagged initialization packet. The method may include implementing a policy specific to the identified tenant.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a software defined network (SDN) controller, a tagged initialization packet from an SDN enabled switch; identifying, at the SDN controller, a tenant corresponding to the tagged initialization packet, the tenant being one of a plurality of tenants; identifying, at the SDN controller, a policy specific to the identified tenant; and implementing, by the SDN controller, the policy specific to the identified tenant. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system comprising:
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a software defined network (SDN) enabled switch that includes a packet tagger to tag incoming packets that are initialization packets of a network file access protocol; and an SDN controller to receive tagged initialization packets from the SDN enabled switch, the SDN controller includes; a tenant awareness module to identify a tenant from among a plurality of tenants based on the tagged initialization packet; and a management module to implement a policy specific to the identified tenant. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a software defined network (SDN) controller, the non-transitory machine readable medium comprising:
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instructions to receive a tagged initialization packet from an SDN enabled switch, the tagged initialization packet being a packet received by the SDN enabled switch and tagged by the SDN enabled switch after being determined to not match an existing flow table of the SDN enabled switch and determined to be an initialization packet of a network file access protocol; instructions to analyze the tagged initialization packet to identify a tenant from among a plurality of tenants; instructions to identify a policy specific to the identified tenant; and instructions to implement the policy specific to the identified tenant. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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