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US 2019/0199551 A1Published application
System and Method for providing private instances of shared resources using VxLAN
OwnerMichael Emory Mazarickinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for providing private instances of shared resources utilizing VxLAN technology is disclosed, the system consisting of a private management local area network (MLAN), a separate virtual local area network (VLAN) to place resources that are to be shared, and private instances (replicas) of the shared resources that are located on a client's private network.
Claims15
A method for sharing network resources, the method comprising the steps of:
- initializing and maintaining, by at least one of a plurality of computing devices, a management local area network (MLAN) comprising at least a physical firewall or a virtual firewall/vtep/router;
- wherein the virtual firewall/vtep/router contains a virtual Ethernet port;
- initializing and maintaining a plurality of client virtual local area networks (VLANs) that utilizes VxLAN standard for providing private instances;
- wherein each client VLAN comprises a corresponding virtual firewall;
- adding a plurality of network resources to the client VLANs;
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- removing all VLAN tags, QinQ tags and VxLAN tags by a management system before placing inside a corresponding client's virtual data center;
- wherein a plurality of the network resources are virtual resources allocated on at least one networkable computing device, and the step of initializing and maintaining a plurality of client VLANs comprises creating an Ethernet device without IP address and routing information.
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A system for sharing network resources, the system comprising:
- At least one network switch;
- At least one client;
- A plurality of computing devices, each of said plurality of the computing devices comprising at least one network connection, at least one management console to interface with said at least one client and at least one storage device containing software configured to:
- initializing and maintaining a management local area network (MLAN) comprising at least a physical firewall or a virtual firewall/vtep/router;
- wherein the virtual firewall/vtep/router contains a virtual Ethernet port;
- initializing and maintaining a plurality of client virtual local area networks (VLANs) that utilizes VxLAN standard for providing private instances;
- wherein each client VLAN comprises a corresponding virtual firewall;
- adding a plurality of network resources to the client VLANs;
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- removing all VLAN tags, QinQ tags and VxLAN tags, by a management system before placing inside a corresponding client's virtual data center;
- wherein a plurality of the network resources are virtual resources allocated on at least one networkable computing device, and the step of initializing and maintaining a plurality of client VLANs comprises creating an Ethernet device without IP address and routing information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.