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Method and system of scaling a cloud computing network

US8989187B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15Claims

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Assignee

Coraid, Inc. · US

Inventors

Nakul Pratap Saraiya · Palo Alto, US
Lawrence McGoff Matter · Millbrae, US
Alok Rishi · Millbrae, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 5, 2011
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 25, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2101/622
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of scaling a cloud computing network are disclosed. A virtual switch receives a data packet from a virtual machine. The virtual machine and the virtual switch can be implemented on the same host device. The virtual switch can remove the virtual MAC address from the data packet. The virtual switch can then include a physical MAC address or a synthetic MAC address of a target host. A synthetic MAC address can be utilized for multicast traffic where want to associate a separate MAC with each tenant of the host. The data packet can be sent to a target host.

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