公开(公告)号：CA3098985A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-07

申请号：CA3098985

申请日：2019-04-24

Applicant: CISCO TECH INC

Inventor： BOSCH HENDRIKUS ,  NAPPER JEFFREY ,  SURCOUF ANDRE ,  DUMINUCO ALESSANDRO ,  DHESIKAN SUBHASRI ,  MULLENDER SAPE

IPC: H04L12/701

Abstract: Techniques for provisioning multicast chains in a cloud-based environment are described herein. In an embodiment, a system sends a model of an application comprising sources, destinations, and virtualized appliances for initiation by host computers to a software- defined networking (SDN) controller. The SDN controller determines locations for the virtualized appliances and generates an updated model of the application, the updated model comprising the locations for the virtualized appliances. The SDN controller sends the updated model to the orchestration system. The orchestration system uses the updated model to generate a mapping of virtualized appliances to available host computers. Using the mapping of virtualized appliances to available host computers, the orchestration system sends instructions for initiating the virtualized appliances on the available host computers to one or more cloud management systems.