Enabling uniform switch management in virtual infrastructure
First Claim
1. For a datacenter comprising (i) a plurality of physical host computing devices, (ii) a compute manager, and (iii) a network manager, a method of configuring a logical network, the method comprising:
- configuring, by the compute manager, one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) to execute on the plurality of physical hosts, with at least two or more DCNs executing on each of a set of physical hosts;
defining the logical network at the network manager;
providing, from the network manager, read-only configuration information for the logical network to virtualization software of the set of physical hosts;
obtaining, at the compute manager, the read-only configuration information for the logical network from the virtualization software of the set of physical hosts; and
configuring, by the compute manager, the DCNs to connect to the logical network using the read-only configuration information for the logical network, without modifying the logical network, wherein said compute manager manages the DCNs while the network manager does not manage the DCNs.
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Abstract
A method of configuring a logical network in a datacenter is provided. The datacenter includes a plurality of host physical computing devices, a compute manager to configure one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) on virtualization software of each host, and a network manager. The method configures, by the network manager, a logical network. the method provides, by the network manager, a read-only configuration construct of the logical network to the virtualization software of a set of hosts in the plurality of hosts. The method obtains, by the compute manager, the read-only configuration construct of the logical network from the virtualization software of the set of hosts. The method configures, by the compute manager, a plurality of DCNs to connect to the logical network using the read only configuration construct of the logical network.
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22 Claims
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1. For a datacenter comprising (i) a plurality of physical host computing devices, (ii) a compute manager, and (iii) a network manager, a method of configuring a logical network, the method comprising:
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configuring, by the compute manager, one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) to execute on the plurality of physical hosts, with at least two or more DCNs executing on each of a set of physical hosts; defining the logical network at the network manager; providing, from the network manager, read-only configuration information for the logical network to virtualization software of the set of physical hosts; obtaining, at the compute manager, the read-only configuration information for the logical network from the virtualization software of the set of physical hosts; and configuring, by the compute manager, the DCNs to connect to the logical network using the read-only configuration information for the logical network, without modifying the logical network, wherein said compute manager manages the DCNs while the network manager does not manage the DCNs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system comprising:
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a plurality of physical host computing devices; a compute manager to; configure one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) to execute on the plurality of physical hosts, with at least two or more DCNs executing on each of a set of physical hosts; and a network manager to; define a logical network and provide read-only configuration information for the logical network to virtualization software of the set of physical hosts, wherein the compute manager is further configured to obtain the read-only configuration information for the logical network from the virtualization software of the set of physical hosts and to configure the DCNs to connect to the logical network using the read-only configuration information for the logical network, without modifying the logical network, and wherein the network manager does not manage the DCNs. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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