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- Patent Title: Techniques for operating virtual switches in a virtualized computing environment
- Patent Title (中): 在虚拟化计算环境中操作虚拟交换机的技术
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Application No.: US13107433Application Date: 2011-05-13
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Publication No.: US08793685B2Publication Date: 2014-07-29
- Inventor: Jayakrishna Kidambi , Amitabha Biswas , John Buswell , Dorit Rond
- Applicant: Jayakrishna Kidambi , Amitabha Biswas , John Buswell , Dorit Rond
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Yudell Isidore Ng Russell PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract:
A technique for operating a virtual switch includes determining network connection requirements for virtual machines controlled by a virtual machine monitor. Resources available, for processing data traffic of the virtual machines, are also determined. Finally, based on the network connection requirements and the resources available, a port of a virtual switch is selected to operate as a virtual Ethernet bridge or a virtual Ethernet port aggregator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120291025A1 TECHNIQUES FOR OPERATING VIRTUAL SWITCHES IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2012-11-15
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