Optimizing routing and load balancing in an SDN-enabled cloud during enterprise data center migration

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of network routing and load balancing in a software design network (SDN)-enabled computing environment, comprising:

• receiving input data from a source computing environment, wherein one or more of components of the source computing environment are to be migrated to a target computing environment during a data center migration, the input data comprising at least source configuration information and utilization information including at least criticality of servers and a list of server and resource utilization and configurations;
• determining target compute resources, network design and system management design based on the input data, and generating a new network configuration as output;
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• transmitting the new network configuration to an SDN controller associated with the target computing environment for storing as flow table rules, the new network configuration comprising selection of network, resources, assets comprising at least memory and central processing unit, physical and virtual connections to servers, connection paths, connection path lengths, physical location of the assets, firewall design, mix of public and private computing infrastructure's network allocation, and network security translated into the flow table rules, wherein the SDN controller pushes the flow table rules to one or more routing switches, the flow table rules for performing the network routing and the load balancing.

A system for providing network routing and load balancing in a software design network (SDN)-enabled computing environment, comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• and
• a memory device coupled to the one or more hardware processors;
• one or more of the hardware processors receiving input data from a source computing environment, wherein one or more of components of the source computing environment are to be migrated to a target computing environment during a data center migration, the input data comprising at least source configuration information and utilization information including at least criticality of servers and a list of server and resource utilization and configurations,
• one or more of the hardware processors determining target compute resources, network design and system management design based on the input data, and generating a new network configuration as output,
• one or more of the hardware processors transmitting the new network configuration to an SDN controller associated with the target computing environment for storing as flow table rules, the new network configuration comprising selection of network, resources, assets comprising at least memory and central processing unit, physical and virtual connections to servers, connection paths, connection path lengths, physical location of the assets, firewall design, mix of public and private computing infrastructure's network allocation, and network security translated into the flow table rules, wherein the SDN controller pushes the flow table rules to one or more routing switches, the flow table rules for performing the network routing and the load balancing.