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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
at 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:
determining that the first smart NIC is elected to communicate with a network management and control system that configures the virtual networking operations, wherein the network management and control system comprises a management plane and a control plane, wherein said determining that the first smart NIC is elected to communicate with the network management and control system comprises determining that the first smart NIC is elected to communicate with the management plane;
receiving a set of configuration data for the virtual networking operations from the network management and control system, wherein the set of configuration data is received from the management plane; and
providing the received set of configuration data to the other smart NICs of the host computer.