Methods and apparatus for distributed dynamic network provisioning

A system, comprising:

• a first network device having a port configured to be operatively coupled without an intervening switching device of a switch fabric to a first host device;
• and
• a second network device operatively coupled to the first network device via the switch fabric and having a port configured to be operatively coupled without an intervening switching device of the switch fabric to a second host device,
• the first network device configured to receive a migration notification associated with a migration of a first virtual resource from the first host device to the second host device, the first network device configured to provision the port of the first network device in response to the migration notification and based on a first configuration template associated with the first virtual resource from a library of configuration templates,
• the second network device configured to provision the port of the second network device in response to the migration notification,
• the second network device configured to detect a second virtual resource hosted by the second host device,
• the second network device configured to select a second configuration template associated with the second virtual resource from the library of configuration templates,
• the second network device configured to define a composite configuration template based on the first configuration template and the second configuration template,
• the second network device configured to provision the port of the second network device such that the second network device is provisioned based on the composite configuration template.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a network interface configured to communicate with a communication network;
• a first communication interface configured to communicate with a first host device when the first host device is operatively coupled to the first communication interface without an intervening switching device of a switch fabric, the first communication interface configured to receive a migration notification at a first time from the first host device in response to a virtual resource migrating to the first host device;
• a memory configured to store a library of configuration templates;
• and a processor operatively coupled to the network interface, the first communication interface, and the memory, the processor configured to select a first configuration template from the library of configuration templates based on the migration notification received from the first host device, the processor configured to provision the first communication interface based on the first configuration template, the processor configured to determine at a second time after the first time that the virtual resource is not hosted by the first host device, the processor configured to deprovision the first communication interface based on the first configuration template, the processor configured to detect at a third time after the second time that the virtual resource is hosted by a second host device operatively coupled to a second communication interface, the processor configured to select the first configuration template associated with the virtual resource from the library of configuration templates, the processor configured to provision the second communication interface based on the first configuration template associated with the virtual resource.