Virtual gateway router
AssigneeSkytap
InventorsPeter Holland, Bradley M. Schick
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Abstract
A facility for configuring a virtual data center is described. A user such as an administrator uses a management interface to input information specifying a configuration for a virtual data center including virtual network nodes and virtual routers. In response, the facility instantiates each virtual network router needed for the configuration, such as by, for each, instantiating on commodity hardware a virtual machine running a general-purpose operating system used to provide routing services to the virtual network nodes.
Claims26
A method for provisioning virtual data centers, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to instantiate a plurality of virtual network routers for routing traffic among a plurality of virtual network nodes;
- and
- in response to the received request, simultaneously instantiating a new virtual machine for each of the plurality of virtual network routers.
A computer-readable storage device having contents adapted to cause a computing system to perform operations for provisioning virtual data centers, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request to instantiate a plurality of virtual network routers for routing traffic among a plurality of virtual network nodes;
- and
- in response to the received request, simultaneously instantiating a new virtual machine for each of the plurality of virtual network routers.
A system for provisioning virtual data centers, comprising:
- means for receiving a request to instantiate a plurality of virtual network routers for routing traffic among a plurality of virtual network nodes;
- and
- means for in response to the received request, simultaneously instantiating a new virtual machine for each of the plurality of virtual network routers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.