US 12,470,621 B2
Transparent load balancing
Srinivasa Srikanth Podila, Bangalore (IN); Hiral Mehta, Bangalore (IN); and Varun Lakkur Ambaji Rao, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/211,562.
Claims priority of application No. 202241042037 (IN), filed on Jul. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0031428 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 67/1004 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/1004 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of performing load balancing for a plurality of servers, the method comprising:
assigning a plurality of transparent load balancers to a common network address associated with the plurality of servers;
configuring at least two of the transparent load balancers as active transparent load balancers that concurrently receive data message flows directed to the common network address, select one of the servers for each flow, and forward each flow to the server selected for the flow without modifying a source IP address of the flow;
wherein different subsets of the plurality of transparent load balancers are configured to serve as active transparent load balancers and default gateways for different server clusters.