Extension of network control system into public cloud

• Main Authors: Hira, Mukesh, Jian, Jayant, Pillai, Sanal, Shah, Saurabh, Katrekar, Akshay, Wang, Su, Zhang, Ronghua, Yu, Jia, Kulkarni, Vaibhav, Chandrashekhar, Ganesan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.03.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Some embodiments provide a method for a first network controller that manages a logical network implemented in a datacenter including forwarding elements to which the first network controller does not have access. The method identifies a first data compute node (DCN) in the datacenter configured to execute a second network controller. The method distributes configuration data defining the logical network to the first DCN. The second network controller distributes sets of the configuration data to local agents executing on additional DCNs in the datacenter that send and receive messages through the logical network. Both managed forwarding elements and the local agents execute on each of the additional DCNs. Each local agent on a particular DCN is for receiving a set of configuration data from the second network controller and configuring the managed forwarding element on the particular DCN to implement the logical network according to the set of configuration data.