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AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsRaja Kommula, Constantine Polychronopoulos, Thayumanavan Sridhar, Marc-Andre Bordeleau, Edward Choh, Ojas Gupta, Robert Kidd, Georgios Oikonomou, Jeremy Tidemann
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Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network. For a received data message flow, the method has the HFE identify a network slice associated with the received data message flow. This network slice in some embodiments is associated with a set of operations to be performed on the data message by several network elements, including one or more machines executing on one or more computers in the network. Once the network slice is identified, the method has the HFE process the data message flow based on a rule that applies to data messages associated with the identified slice.
A method for enforcing a level of service for ingress side data message traffic to a computer in a datacenter, the datacenter comprising a plurality of hardware forwarding elements (HFEs), the method comprising:
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for executing by at least one processing unit, the program for enforcing a level of service for ingress side data message traffic to a computer in a datacenter, the datacenter comprising a plurality of hardware forwarding elements (HFEs), the program comprising sets of instructions for:
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