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US 2012/0072909 A1Published application
Automated orchestration between physical and virtual computing systems
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorsBilal MALIK, Arthi Ayyangar
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Abstract
Changes to a virtual system, such as a set of virtual machines in a data center, may be automatically synchronized with the corresponding physical system. In one implementation, an application may receive information regarding changes made to a virtual system. The application may determine whether the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of one or more physical switches, and may reconfigure affected ones of the physical switches for compatibility with the changes made to the virtual system.
Claims22
A device implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by the device, information regarding changes made to a virtual system, the virtual system including one or more virtual machines that run on one or more physical devices, the physical devices being coupled to one another using one or more physical switches;
- determining, by the device, whether the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of the one or more physical switches;
- and
- reconfiguring, by the device, when the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of the one or more physical switches, affected ones of the one or more physical switches for compatibility with the changes made to the virtual system.
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A device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory to store instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions including instructions to:
- receive information regarding changes made to a virtual system, the virtual system including one or more virtual machines that run on one or more physical devices, the physical devices being coupled to one another using one or more physical switches;
- determine whether the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of the one or more physical switches;
- and
- reconfigure, when the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of the one or more physical switches, affected ones of the one or more physical switches for compatibility with the changes made to the virtual system.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of servers, each of the servers to host one or more virtual machines;
- a plurality of switches to couple the plurality of servers to an external network;
- a virtual machine control component to provision and manage the virtual machines, the virtual machine control component to transmit information regarding changes made to the virtual machines;
- and
- a network control component to:
- manage the plurality of servers and switches,
- receive the information regarding the changes made to the virtual machines,
- determine whether the information regarding the changes necessitates a change in the configuration of the one or more of the plurality of switches, and
- reconfigure, when the information regarding the changes necessitates a change, affected ones of the one or more plurality of switches for compatibility with the changes made to the virtual machines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.