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AssigneeNicira, Inc.
InventorsSubin Cyriac Mathew, Alexander Tessmer, Sami Boutros, Chidambareswaran Raman
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The disclosure provides an approach for reducing multicast traffic within a network by optimizing placement of virtual machines within subnets and within hosts, and by optimizing mapping of overlay multicast groups to underlay multicast groups. In one embodiment, substantially all VMs of a multicast group are migrated to the same subnet of the network. Thereafter or independently, VMs in the same subnet are migrated to the same host, ideally to the subnet proxy endpoint of that subnet. In the same or in another embodiment, if multiple overlay groups map to the same underlay group, one or more of the overlay groups may be remapped to a separate underlay group to improve network performance.
A method of reducing congestion within a network, the network comprising a plurality of host machines and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) running on the plurality of host machines, the method comprising:
A computer system operating on a physical network comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed in a processor of a computer system, the computer system comprising a plurality of host machines and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) running on the plurality of host machines, and the instructions when executed in the processor cause the network to carry out a method of reducing congestion within a network, said method comprising:
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