公开(公告)号：US20180004577A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15707778

申请日：2017-09-18

申请人： Nicira, Inc.

发明人： Brenden Blanco ,  Sushil Singh ,  Gaetano Borgione ,  Alexei Starovoitov ,  Pere Monclus

IPC分类号： G06F9/50 ,  G06F11/18 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04L12/24

CPC分类号： G06F9/5077 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50 ,  H04L29/08846 ,  H04L41/0803 ,  H04L41/0816 ,  H04L41/50

摘要： A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for use of a connectivity manager and a network infrastructure including the same. In one embodiment, the network infrastructure comprises one or more physical devices communicably coupled into a physical network infrastructure or via the overlay provided by the physical servers; and a virtual network domain containing a virtual network infrastructure executing on the physical network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the virtual network domain comprises one or more virtual network functions connected together through one or more links and executing on the one or more physical devices, and one or more interfaces coupled to one or more network functions via one or more links to communicate data between the virtual network domain and at least one of the one or more physical devices of the physical network infrastructure while the virtual network domain is isolated from other virtual infrastructures executing on the physical network infrastructure.

公开(公告)号：US09766943B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US14253775

申请日：2014-04-15

申请人： Nicira, Inc.

发明人： Brenden Blanco ,  Sushil Singh ,  Gaetano Borgione ,  Alexei Starovaitov ,  Pere Monclus

IPC分类号： G06F9/50 ,  G06F11/18 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/931 ,  G06F9/455

CPC分类号： G06F9/5077 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F11/181 ,  H04L41/0803 ,  H04L41/0816 ,  H04L41/50 ,  H04L49/354

摘要： A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for use of a connectivity manager and a network infrastructure including the same. In one embodiment, the network infrastructure comprises one or more physical devices communicably coupled into a physical network infrastructure or via the overlay provided by the physical servers; and a virtual network domain containing a virtual network infrastructure executing on the physical network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the virtual network domain comprises one or more virtual network functions connected together through one or more links and executing on the one or more physical devices, and one or more interfaces coupled to one or more network functions via one or more links to communicate data between the virtual network domain and at least one of the one or more physical devices of the physical network infrastructure while the virtual network domain is isolated from other virtual infrastructures executing on the physical network infrastructure.

公开(公告)号：US10461999B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-29

申请号：US15707778

申请日：2017-09-18

申请人： Nicira, Inc.

发明人： Brenden Blanco ,  Sushil Singh ,  Gaetano Borgione ,  Alexei Starovoitov ,  Pere Monclus

IPC分类号： H04L12/24 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L29/08

摘要： Example methods and systems for managing interconnection of virtual network functions are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include, in response to a trigger event indicating detection of an interface, obtaining a virtual network domain template corresponding to a virtual network domain to be configured, the virtual network domain template identifying one or more virtual network functions and one or more interfaces, at least some of the virtual network functions being connected together through one or more links. Disclosed example methods further include configuring and provisioning the virtual network domain to contain the interface using the virtual network domain template and properties of the interface to enable the interface to send information in the virtual network domain.