US 12,074,762 B2
Tenant movement in a multi-tenant system
Ramakanth Gunuganti, San Jose, CA (US); and Yogendra Singh, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to ALKIRA, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/998,804
Filed by Alkira, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/027575
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/211910, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/010,653, filed on Apr. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0246909 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 41/082 (2022.01); H04L 41/0897 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/082 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0897 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tenant migration method, comprising:
adding capacity to a first dataplane, wherein adding the capacity comprises adding a second set of nodes in a second mesh of the first dataplane;
moving public Internet Protocols (IPs) for a first tenant network to the second set of nodes of the second mesh;
updating the first tenant network;
moving loss-less tenants from a first set of nodes to the second set of nodes, wherein the first set of nodes is in a first mesh of the first dataplane;
upgrading a new node to a new instance using a node profile of a corresponding existing node of the first set of nodes; and
porting underlay and overlay network of the corresponding existing node to the new node.