Auto-scaling virtual switches
US10481932B2 · kind B2 · utility
2Cited by
8References
20Claims
0Family size
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2014 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 30, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/657
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A port is dynamically added to and removed from a virtual switch. The new port may be allocated when there is sufficient free memory in a pool of memory associated with the virtual switch. When an existing port is deallocated, the portion of the pool of memory allocated to that existing port is freed up. As a result, a virtual machine that requires one or more ports on the virtual switch may be provisioned on a host so long as the pool of memory is sized properly and memory usage on the host is not excessive.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.