US 2016/0080201 A1 · NETWORK OFFERING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

A cloud system may create and support multiple network offerings for virtual machines in a cloud zone. Physical networks comprising sets of network elements, such as routers, gateways, firewalls, load balancers, and other network hardware, may be created and updated within a zone. Network offerings may be defined and associated, using tags or other techniques, with virtual machine networks, physical networks and/or network elements. Cloud end users may request specific network offerings when creating virtual machines, or may request to move existing virtual machines from one network offering to another. The cloud system may use the requested network offering to identify the virtual machine network, physical network, and/or network elements corresponding to the requested network offering. The cloud system may allocate a new virtual machine network and configure the network elements within the associated physical network to provide network services to the virtual machine.

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Dependent claims

One or more tangible computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:

identify a first zone within a cloud of computing resources in which to create a first physical network, the first zone comprising a plurality of network elements;
identify a first network element within the first zone to be added to the first physical network;
and
create the first physical network in the first zone, wherein the first physical network includes the first network element and does not include at least one other network element in the plurality of network elements in the first zone.

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One or more tangible computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:

identify a first availability zone within a cloud of computing resources in which to create a first physical network, the first availability zone comprising a plurality of collocated network elements;
identify a first network element within the first zone to be added to the first physical network;
create the first physical network in the first zone, wherein the first physical network includes the first network element and does not include at least one other network element in the plurality of collocated network elements;
receive a request from a first end user to create a first virtual machine within the cloud of computing resources;
receive a selection from the first end user of a first network offering for the first virtual machine, the first network offering corresponding to a set of network services;
retrieve a tag associating the first network offering with the first physical network;
and
based on the retrieved tag, create the first virtual machine for the first end user in the first physical network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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