Patent ID: 11956126
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a network controller, physical network topology of a data center network;
onboarding, by the network controller, a virtual machine manager for the data center network and a container orchestrator for the data center network onto the network controller with read-only privileges;
collecting, by the network controller, virtual machine related network topology of the data center network from the virtual machine manager for the data center network;
collecting, by the network controller, virtual ethernet flow mapping information of the data center network from a blade system management software for the data center network;
collecting, by the network controller, container workload information of the data center network from the container orchestrator for the data center network; and
generating, by the network controller, an integrated correlated visualization mapping of containers and associated network attachment points in the data center network based on the physical network topology, the virtual machine related network topology, the virtual ethernet flow mapping information, and the container workload information.