Patent ID: 11907742
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed in a computing device to cause the computing device to carry out a method of orchestrating a software-defined (SD) network layer of a virtualized computing system, the virtualized computing system including a host cluster, a virtualization management server, and a network management server each connected to a physical network, the network management server being deployed in a separate physical or virtual server from the virtualization management server, the host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts, the method comprising:
receiving, at the virtualization management server, a declarative specification describing a proposed state of an SD network for the host cluster;
deploying, by a network management service executing in the virtualization management server, virtualized infrastructure components in the host cluster needed to implement the SD network described in the declarative specification, the virtualized infrastructure including a resource pool, at least one virtual machine (VM) deployed in the resource pool, and a distributed switch deployed in the virtualization layer; and
deploying, by the network management service in cooperation with the network management server, logical network services of the SD network on the virtualized infrastructure components, the logical network services including a logical switch deployed on the distributed switch and edge services deployed in the at least one VM.