472 results about "Network virtualization" patented technology

The invention is directed to providing cloud-based services using dynamic network virtualization. Embodiments of the invention provide a cloud-based service over a system that has a dynamic network virtualization architecture. The architecture includes a set of distributed forwarding elements with centralized control, and at least one virtual machine that is bound to one of the forwarding elements. These features enable the virtual machine to be migrated across a wide area network while maintaining its original IP address and service continuity.

A method for resource optimized network virtualization overlay transport in a virtualized data center environment includes an optimized virtualized transport mechanism based on MPLS-TP tunneling technology. The transport mechanism may include a usage monitoring and resource usage advertisement mechanism based on IGP-TE protocol extension. Also, the transport mechanism may include a path computation engine (PCE) based optimal path computation for a virtualized transport tunnel used to carry VM-to-VM traffic across the virtualized data center. Additionally, the transport mechanism may include a SDN controller for provisioning and control of virtualized machines and a virtualized transport system.

A network virtualization layer for an information handling system in which a physical machine coupled to a network is divided into a plurality of logical partitions, each of which has a host system residing thereon. In response to receiving a set command from one of the host systems specifying a data link layer (layer 2) address, the virtualization layer associates the data link layer address with the host system and forwards to the host system data packets specifying the data link layer address as a destination address. Unicast packets are forwarded to the single host system specifying the destination address as an individual MAC address, while multicast packets are forwarded to each host system specifying the destination address as a group MAC address. A host system may also specify a virtual LAN (VLAN) ID, which is used to scope the forwarding of packets to host systems sharing that VLAN ID.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates end-to-end virtualization. During operation, a network interface residing on an end host sets up a tunnel. The network interface then encapsulates a packet destined to a virtual machine based on a tunneling protocol. By establishing a tunnel that allows a source host to address a remote virtual machine, embodiments of the present invention facilitate end-to-end virtualization.

A method and apparatus for providing network virtualization on a packet network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a user, wherein the request comprises at least one of: a feature of a network component or a network component for a virtual network. The method determines if the request can be instantiated over one or more real network resources, and then instantiates the request via the one or more real network resources, if it is determined that the request can be instantiated.

A method for implementing an entity of a network by virtualizing said network entity and implementing it on one or more servers each acting as an execution unit for executing thereon one or more applications running and/or one or more virtual machines running on said execution unit, each of said application programs or virtual machines running on a server and implementing at least a part of the functionality of said network entity being called a virtual network function VNF module, wherein a plurality of said VNF modules together implement said network entity to thereby form a virtual network function VNF, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining m key performance indicators (KPI) specifying the required overall performance of the VNF, obtaining n performance characteristics for available types of execution units, determining one or more possible deployment plans based on the obtained m KPI and n performance characteristics, each deployment plan specifying the number and types of execution units, such that the joint performance of VNF modules running on these execution units achieves the required overall performance of the VNF.

Some embodiments of the invention provide a robust scaling-out of network functionality by providing a software layer, called the network hypervisor, that sits between the network forwarding functions (i.e., the forwarding plane) and the network control interfaces (i.e., the control plane). The network hypervisor of some embodiments provides a logical abstraction of the network's forwarding functionality, so that network operators make their control decisions in terms of this abstraction, independent of the details of the underlying networking hardware. The network hypervisor of some embodiments may then “compile” commands placed against this abstraction into configurations of the underlying hardware. Accordingly, in some embodiments, there are two design challenges: (1) the choice of the network abstraction, and (2) the technology needed to compile the logical “abstract” controls into low-level configurations.

Some embodiments provide a virtualizer for managing a plurality of managed switching elements that forward data through a network. The virtualizer comprises a first set of tables for storing input logical forwarding plane data and a second set of tables for storing output physical control plane data. It also includes a table mapping engine for mapping the input logical forwarding plane data in the first set of tables to output physical control plane data in the second set of tables by performing a set of database join operations on the input logical forwarding plane data in the first set of tables. In some embodiments, the physical control plane data is subsequently translated into physical forwarding behaviors that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements.

An apparatus and process for relabelling and redirecting at least some of the read transaction data frames and the write transaction write data and transfer ready frames in a network so as to bypass a storage manager and pass directly between the client and a storage device via a switch. This eliminates the storage manager as a bottleneck. Some embodiments redirect every read and write transaction, and others redirect only large transactions, or only ones not stored in cache or when latency gets too high. Redirection is accomplished by transmission from the storage manager to a switch redirection commands that contain old and new address data. When a frame to be redirected comes in, its address is compared to the old address data. If there is a match, the new address data is substituted and the frame is passed to a conventional routing process to be routed so as to bypass the storage manager.

The present invention is generally directed to a system and method for virtualizing storage in a networked system. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, in a system having an initiator and at least one storage device, an inventive method determines, based upon a SCSI command received by a manager from the initiator, which of the data storage devices are implicated by the SCSI command. The method then forms an iSCSI command that is sent from the manager to each of the implicated storage devices, and receives at the manager an iSCSI response from each of implicated storage devices, after each of the storage devices has completed its implicated data transactions with the initiator. Finally, the method forms a SCSI response that is sent by the manager to the initiator. A corresponding system is also provided.

A local network, such as a data center, includes a plurality of servers each of which are linked to a network switch. Some of the plurality of servers are network virtualization capable and some are not. The network virtualization capable servers include functionality that encapsulates a data frame, generated by one network virtualization servers that is to be sent to another network virtualization capable server, with a network virtualization identity. In the event that a network virtualization server generates a data frame for transmission to a server that is not capable of network virtualization, the network virtualization capable server does not encapsulate the data frame with the network virtualization identity.

An operating system adds an application signature as a tag in a packet header. In one embodiment the tag is inserted as a Q-tag in an Ethernet header. When a network element receives the tagged packet, it uses the tag alone or in combination with one or more additional header fields to map the packet to a network virtualization identifier segregating the application traffic on the network. Services are applied to packets according to network virtualization identifier to enable distributed application of services without requiring network elements to maintain state associated with packet flows.

Performance counters are provided for virtualized network interfaces of communications networks, while minimizing the use of hardware resources. A virtualized network interface includes physical resources, as well as logical resources. Dedicated performance counters are provided for the physical resources of the virtualized network interface, as well as for logical partitions coupled to that interface, while non-dedicated performance counters are provided for the logical resources. This enables the provision of performance counters for virtualized network interfaces, while minimizing hardware resources consumed by those interfaces.

Some embodiments provide a network virtualizer for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network. The virtualizer includes an interface for receiving input logical forwarding plane data. It also includes a converter for converting the input logical forwarding plane data to output physical control plane data. In some embodiments, the physical control plane data is translation into physical forwarding plane data that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements.

Some embodiments provide a controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network. The controller includes an interface for receiving input logical control plane data in terms of input events data. The controller includes an input scheduler for (1) categorizing the input events data into different groups based on certain criteria and (2) scheduling supplying of the input event data into a converter based on the groups so that the converter processes a group of input events data together. The controller includes the converter for converting the input logical control plane data to output logical forwarding plane data. The controller includes a network information base (NIB) data structure module for storing the output logical forwarding plane data. The logical forwarding plane data is for subsequent translation into physical control plane data.

A data communication system has data processing circuitry to transfer data communications. Trust modules establish and maintain network trust of the data processing circuitry. A Network Function Virtualization (NFV) system executes hypervisors to establish and maintain an NFV processing environment in the data processing circuitry. A Software Defined Network (SDN) system executes SDN applications, SDN controllers, and SDN data machines in the data processing circuitry during NFV slices to transfer the data communications. The data communication system maintains a data structure that associates, based on execution relationships, individual blocks of the data processing circuitry, the trust modules, the hypervisors, the NFV slices, the SDN applications, the SDN controllers, and the SDN data machines. The database may be queried for the hardware trust data related to specific NFV and SDN software modules.

Methods and apparatus are provided improving data access efficiency in a storage area network. Mechanisms are provided to allow a virtual disk address to be efficiently mapped to a particular physical partition in a virtual disk while recognizing the mirroring, striping, and concatenation characteristics associated with the virtual disk. A variety of indices are used to allow direct access of a physical partition upon identification of a virtual disk address.

The invention discloses a network fault diagnosis method based on deep learning in a network virtualization environment. The network fault diagnosis method comprises the steps of: dividing a network into a physical network and a virtual network, combining the characteristics of occurrence of network faults, considering the time influencing factor, network topological connection characteristics and a mapping relation between the virtual network and the physical network, and comprehensively evaluating the network faults by means of a fault severity grading probability; regarding network characteristic parameters with influence degrees as a model learning resource, paying attention to the correspondence between variation trend of network historical data and fault tags, establishing a network fault diagnosis model with multiple fault grading probabilities in the network virtualization environment based on a viewing angle of deep learning, and training network parameters by using the network fault diagnosis model; and adjusting a fault prediction model in the training process, and utilizing an optimized and adjusted deep learning network to realize fault diagnosis in the network virtualization environment. The network fault diagnosis method can carry out deep analysis on the network parameters in the network virtualization environment, therefore the network fault diagnosis method has higher precision in predicting the network faults.

A method resolves connectivity of services inside a network virtualization system when a virtual cluster system supports unicast IP, L2VPN, and L3VPN services, so that the software network virtualization system can support various types of services efficiently and with high quality. The method includes: creating, on a control device, a virtualized remote logical interface for an external interface of a remote access node; identifying, by the control device according to a service configured on the virtualized remote logical interface, a service type of the service, and generating virtual link forwarding entries of the remote access node and a core aggregation node; and sending, by the control device, the virtual link forwarding entry to the remote access node and the core aggregation node, so as to set up a virtual link between the core aggregation node and the remote access node.

A virtual network auto-discovery and auto-configuration method and device thereof are provided. The method includes a tenant end system automatically discovering network virtualization edges (NVEs), the NVE initiating a VN identity authentication of the tenant end system, and the NVE automatically configuring a VN forwarding table of the VN after the tenant end system passes the VN identity authentication. The method and device solve the technical problem that virtual network configuration efficiency is low due to manually configuring the virtual network, and achieve the technical effect of improving the virtual network configuration efficiency.