US 11,729,098 B2
Methods and apparatus to manage a physical network to reduce network dependencies in a multi-fabric virtual network
Raja Kommula, Cupertino, CA (US); and Thayumanavan Sridhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/751,282.
Application 17/751,282 is a continuation of application No. 16/799,505, filed on Feb. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,343,184.
Application 16/799,505 is a continuation of application No. 16/044,296, filed on Jul. 24, 2018, granted, now 10,680,947, issued on Jun. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286393 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 45/74 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 49/201 (2022.01); H04L 49/25 (2022.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/74 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 12/462 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 49/203 (2013.01); H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
15. A method comprising:
connecting, by executing an instruction with processor circuitry, a virtual network interface card (vNIC) of a first server host to a first physical network interface card (pNIC) of the first server host and to a second pNIC of the first server host;
establishing, by executing an instruction with the processor circuitry, an inter-switch link between a first switch and a second switch, the first switch and the first server host in a first network fabric, the second switch and a second server host in a second network fabric; and
causing, by executing an instruction with the processor circuitry, transmission of a first network packet and a second network packet from the vNIC of the first server host, the first and second network packets to be delivered to the second server host via the inter-switch link, the first network packet to be transmitted via the first pNIC when utilization of the first pNIC does not satisfy a threshold value, the second network packet to be transmitted via the second pNIC when the utilization of the first pNIC satisfies the threshold value.