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...