US 12,452,128 B2
Physical network orchestration for data centers
Vipin Jain, San Jose, CA (US); Suran Saminda de Silva, Saratoga, CA (US); Shyam Kapadia, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Nilesh Shah, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/349,016.
Application 17/349,016 is a continuation of application No. 16/696,729, filed on Nov. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,057,270.
Application 16/696,729 is a continuation of application No. 15/842,411, filed on Dec. 14, 2017, granted, now 10,523,504, issued on Dec. 31, 2019.
Application 15/842,411 is a continuation of application No. 13/921,083, filed on Jun. 18, 2013, granted, now 9,860,116, issued on Jan. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0116271 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/084 (2022.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 49/15 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0806 (2013.01) [H04L 41/084 (2013.01); H04L 49/1569 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0014 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for configuring a network, the method comprising:
at an orchestrator in a network comprising a plurality of physical network elements, associating a network device configuration profile with a network device identifier and storing the network device configuration profile in memory associated with the network;
after the associating, receiving information containing at least the network device identifier from a non-virtualized network device, the information being communicated in response to the non-virtualized network device being connected to the network;
obtaining, from the received information, the network device identifier associated with the non-virtualized network device;
using the network device identifier to retrieve the network device configuration profile corresponding to the network device identifier from the memory associated with the network; and
utilizing the network device configuration profile retrieved from the memory associated with the network to configure at least one of the plurality of physical network elements to exchange data with the non-virtualized network device.