Inline load balancing
    22.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11075842B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16427294

    申请日:2019-05-30

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN. To direct the data message to the identified DCN, the load balancer in some embodiments changes the destination address (e.g., the destination IP address, destination port, destination MAC address, etc.) in the data message from the address of the identified DCN group to the address (e.g., the destination IP address) of the identified DCN.

    Firewall rule management
    24.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10608993B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-31

    申请号:US15726237

    申请日:2017-10-05

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 G06F9/455

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a central firewall management system that can be used to manage different firewall devices from a single management interface. This management interface provides a uniform interface for defining different firewall rule sets and deploying these rules sets on different firewall devices (e.g., port-linked firewall engines, firewall service VMs, network-perimeter firewall devices, etc.). Also, this interface allows the location and/or behavior of the firewall rule sets to be dynamically modified. The management interface in some embodiments also provides controls for filtering and debugging firewall rules.

    Dynamically adjusting a data compute node group

    公开(公告)号:US10341233B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US14815838

    申请日:2015-07-31

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN. To direct the data message to the identified DCN, the load balancer in some embodiments changes the destination address (e.g., the destination IP address, destination port, destination MAC address, etc.) in the data message from the address of the identified DCN group to the address (e.g., the destination IP address) of the identified DCN.

    FIREWALL RULE MANAGEMENT
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180048623A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-15

    申请号:US15726237

    申请日:2017-10-05

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 G06F9/455

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a central firewall management system that can be used to manage different firewall devices from a single management interface. This management interface provides a uniform interface for defining different firewall rule sets and deploying these rules sets on different firewall devices (e.g., port-linked firewall engines, firewall service VMs, network-perimeter firewall devices, etc.). Also, this interface allows the location and/or behavior of the firewall rule sets to be dynamically modified. The management interface in some embodiments also provides controls for filtering and debugging firewall rules.

    Firewall rule management
    28.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09787641B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-10

    申请号:US14788689

    申请日:2015-06-30

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 G06F9/455

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a central firewall management system that can be used to manage different firewall devices from a single management interface. This management interface provides a uniform interface for defining different firewall rule sets and deploying these rules sets on different firewall devices (e.g., port-linked firewall engines, firewall service VMs, network-perimeter firewall devices, etc.). Also, this interface allows the location and/or behavior of the firewall rule sets to be dynamically modified. The management interface in some embodiments also provides controls for filtering and debugging firewall rules.

    Dynamically adjusting load balancing

    公开(公告)号:US09774537B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-26

    申请号:US14557295

    申请日:2014-12-01

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN. To direct the data message to the identified DCN, the load balancer in some embodiments changes the destination address (e.g., the destination IP address, destination port, destination MAC address, etc.) in the data message from the address of the identified DCN group to the address (e.g., the destination IP address) of the identified DCN.

    Managed gateways peering with external router to attract ingress packets
    30.
    发明授权
    Managed gateways peering with external router to attract ingress packets 有权
    管理网关与外部路由器对等,以吸引入侵数据包

    公开(公告)号:US09225597B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-29

    申请号:US14214553

    申请日:2014-03-14

    申请人: Nicira, Inc.

    摘要: Some embodiments provide a network system. The network system includes a first set of host machines hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network. The network system includes a second set of host machines hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways to process packets entering the logical network from external sources. Each of the virtualized containers advertises itself to an external router as a next hop for packets entering the logical network such that the external router uses equal-cost multi-path forwarding to distribute the packets across the virtualized containers on the second set of host machines.

    摘要翻译: 一些实施例提供网络系统。 网络系统包括托管通过逻辑网络彼此连接的虚拟机的第一组主机。 网络系统包括托管虚拟化容器的第二组主机,作为网关来处理从外部源进入逻辑网络的分组。 每个虚拟化容器将自身通告给外部路由器作为进入逻辑网络的分组的下一跳,使得外部路由器使用等价的多路径转发来在第二组主机上的虚拟化容器上分发分组。