ENABLING VIRTUAL MACHINES ACCESS TO SWITCHES CONFIGURED BY DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT ENTITIES

摘要

A method of configuring a plurality of logical forwarding elements (LFEs) on a physical computing device comprising virtualization software and a plurality of data compute nodes (DCNs) is provided. The method provisions a first LFE configured and managed by a network manager of a datacenter on the physical computing device, the first LFE for performing OSI L3)packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the first LFE comprising a plurality of logical ports configured and managed by the network manager, each logical port of the first LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager. The method provisions a second LFE configured and managed by a compute manager of the datacenter on the physical computing device, the second LFE for performing OSI L3 packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the second LFE comprising a plurality of logical port groups configured and managed by the compute manager, each logical port of the second LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager. The method configures a first DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager through a port of the first LFE. The method configures a second DCN in the plurality of DCNs by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager through a port of the second LFE.

主权项

1. A physical computing device comprising:
a set of processing units; and a set of machine readable media storing for execution by the set of processing units:
a plurality of data compute nodes (DCNs);virtualization software;a first logical forwarding element (LFE) configured and managed by a network manager of a datacenter, the first LFE for performing open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer 3 (L3) packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the first LFE comprising a plurality of logical ports configured and managed by the network manager, each logical port of the first LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager;a second LFE configured and managed by a compute manager of the datacenter, the second LFE for performing OSI L3 packet forwarding between DCNs on one or more hosts, the second LFE comprising a plurality of logical port groups configured and managed by the compute manager, each logical port of the second LFE for connecting a DCN to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager,wherein a first DCN in the plurality of DCNs is configured by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the network manager through a port of the first LFE,wherein a second DCN in the plurality of DCNs is configured by the compute manager to connect to a logical network configured and managed by the compute manager through a port of the second LFE.