Patent ID: 11863376
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one processing unit of a first smart network interface controller (NIC) of a plurality of smart NICs of a host computer, each of the smart NICs for performing virtual networking operations for a set of data compute machines executing on the host computer, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
determining that the first smart NIC is elected to communicate with a network management and control system that configures the virtual networking operations such that the first smart NIC is the only one of the plurality of smart NICs of the host computer to communicate with a particular component of the network management and control system;
receiving a set of configuration data for the virtual networking operations from the network management and control system; and
providing the received set of configuration data to the other smart NICs of the host computer that do not communicate with the particular component of the network management and control system.