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Isolating network traffic in multi-tenant virtualization environments

  • US 7,885,276 B1
  • Filed: 09/30/2008
  • Issued: 02/08/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of managing data in a server system, comprising:

  • providing a plurality of physical servers, each having an internal gateway/switch that is accessible from outside the server;

    providing a plurality of virtual servers on at least some of the servers, wherein each of the virtual servers is accessible by the internal gateway/switch of the corresponding server;

    accessing data using the internal gateway/switch, wherein the internal gateway/switch determines which particular one of the virtual servers contain the data and then accesses the particular virtual server to provide the data; and

    associating portions of the data to tenants of the server system, wherein each of the servers maintains a first table that correlates tenants with the virtual servers maintained thereby and wherein the internal gateway/switch uses the first table to determine which particular one of the virtual servers contains data for a particular tenant and wherein entries of the first table include a tenant id, at least one virtual server id, and at least one corresponding internal address of at least one virtual server identified by the at least one virtual server id.

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