Scaling of virtual machine addresses in datacenters

摘要

A device in a server having a processor and a storage. The device has a protocol blind network path indication unit configured to obtain an indicator corresponding to a predetermined path to a data communication unit in the network using a destination address of a received data packet, an upstream communication unit configured to transmit a network protocol blind packet including the data packet and the indicator corresponding to the predetermined data path to the data communication unit in the network, a combiner configured to bind the indicator to the data packet received by the downstream communication unit, and a protocol blind correlation storage unit configured to provide information related to target addresses and indicators corresponding to a plurality of predetermined data paths in the network. The protocol blind network path indication unit obtains the indicator corresponding to a predetermined path by accessing the protocol blind correlation structure.

主权项

1. A network device of a server having a processor and a storage, the network device comprising:
a communication unit configured to receive a data packet to be transmitted to a destination in a data communications network; a protocol blind network path indication unit configured to obtain an indicator corresponding to a predetermined network path through an overlay network comprising one or more tunnels having one or more attributes connecting a first network switch to a second network switch in the data communications network, using a destination address of the data packet, the predetermined network path corresponding to one of the one or more tunnels; and a network protocol blind packet generation unit configured to generate a network protocol blind packet including: the data packet, and the indicator to the predetermined data path in the data communications network, the network protocol blind packet being generated independent of a network protocol of the overlay network.