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AssigneeNicira, Inc.
InventorsBruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Benjamin L. Pfaff, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan
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Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and/or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network.
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For a network controller that manages at least a hardware switching element and a software switching element that both implement a same logical network, a method comprising:
The method of 21 further comprising:
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a network controller that when executed by at least one processing unit manages software and hardware switching elements that implement a logical network, the network controller comprising sets of instructions for:
The non-transitory machine readable medium of 31, wherein the network controller further comprises sets of instructions for:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.