SCALING UP/OUT THE NUMBER OF BROADCAST DOMAINS IN NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A method for handling multicast traffic is presented. A method of handling multicast traffic according to some embodiments of the present invention includes forming IP multicast (IPMC) groups of hypervisors based on broadcast domains; and directing multicast traffic from a broadcast domain on a source hypervisor to hypervisors that are members of the IPMC group.