Vmware llc (20250126022). DYNAMIC TENANT NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY IN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER
DYNAMIC TENANT NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY IN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER
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Anantha Mohan Raj Murugandi Durairaj of Bangalore IN
DYNAMIC TENANT NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY IN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250126022 titled 'DYNAMIC TENANT NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY IN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER
Original Abstract Submitted
an example method of managing tenant networks in a data center includes: obtaining, by tenant network topology discovery software executing in the data center, inventory data for a tenant network deployed in the data center from a network manager, the tenant network comprising a software-defined network managed by the network manager; generating, by the tenant network topology discovery software, a tenant network model based on the inventory data, the tenant network model including objects representing components of the tenant network and relationships between the components; storing, by the tenant network topology discovery software, the tenant network model in a database; and updating, by the tenant network topology discovery software, the tenant network model in response to monitoring the tenant network.