Learning and deploying datacenter landscapes
US10505806B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 29, 2017 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/0843
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein permit logical topologies of datacenters to be automatically learned and re-created in the cloud. In one embodiment, a datacenter landscape is determined based on numbers of hops from nodes in a datacenter to a wide area network (WAN)-facing node. Such a datacenter landscape may then be re-created in the cloud. In another embodiment, virtual appliances are deployed using templates with user-tunable parameters. What would have been set up manually in a physical datacenter, such as connecting a new router to other devices, is then simplified to adjusting parameters of the template to specify, e.g., that the router is a routed hop rather than a bump in the wire, with the router then being automatically deployed in the specified manner.
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