Patent ID: 11909815
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) edge forwarding element (FE) located a branch network connected to an SD-WAN, the program for execution by at least one processing unit, the program for implementing context-aware routing for the SD-WAN, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
receiving, from an SD-WAN controller, geolocation route weights for each of a plurality of cloud datacenters across which a set of application resources is distributed, the application resources all reachable at a same virtual network address; and
for each cloud datacenter of the plurality of cloud datacenters, installing a route for the virtual network address between the branch network and the cloud datacenter, the routes having different total costs based at least in part on the geolocation metrics received from the SD-WAN controller, wherein the SD-WAN edge FE selects between the routes to establish connections to the set of application resources.