Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed load balancer in a virtual machine environment
- Patent Title (中): 分布式负载平衡器在虚拟机环境中
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Application No.: US13065428Application Date: 2011-03-22
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Publication No.: US08676980B2Publication Date: 2014-03-18
- Inventor: Lawrence Kreeger , Elango Ganesan , Michael Freed , Geetha Dabir
- Applicant: Lawrence Kreeger , Elango Ganesan , Michael Freed , Geetha Dabir
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent Cindy Kaplan
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request packet at a flow director in communication with a plurality of servers, each server comprising a virtual load balancer module and one or more virtual machines and forwarding the request packet to one of the virtual load balancer modules at one of the servers. The virtual load balancer module is configured to select one of the virtual machines to receive the request packet and transmit a response packet. The response packet is transmitted without passing through the flow director. An apparatus for load balancing in a virtual machine environment is also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120246637A1 Distributed load balancer in a virtual machine environment Public/Granted day:2012-09-27
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