US 11,956,126 B1
Enhancing container workload visibility in data center environments with blade switches
Anil Bhikuayya Jangam, Milpitas, CA (US); Deepika Sharma, San Jose, CA (US); and Shyam Nayan Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/104,446.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 41/122 (2022.01); H04L 41/22 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/122 (2022.05) [H04L 41/22 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a network controller, physical network topology of a data center network;
onboarding, by the network controller, a virtual machine manager for the data center network and a container orchestrator for the data center network onto the network controller with read-only privileges;
collecting, by the network controller, virtual machine related network topology of the data center network from the virtual machine manager for the data center network;
collecting, by the network controller, virtual ethernet flow mapping information of the data center network from a blade system management software for the data center network;
collecting, by the network controller, container workload information of the data center network from the container orchestrator for the data center network; and
generating, by the network controller, an integrated correlated visualization mapping of containers and associated network attachment points in the data center network based on the physical network topology, the virtual machine related network topology, the virtual ethernet flow mapping information, and the container workload information.