Patent ID: 11863625
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the at least one machine to:
store a plurality of virtual routing tables (VRTs), including a first VRT that corresponds to a first virtual local area network (VLAN) and a second VRT that corresponds to a second VLAN;
facilitate communications between a storage system and a first cloud service provider, via a logical interface that is associated with a port of the first VLAN on the storage system, wherein the logical interface is coupled to a switch that is coupled to the first cloud service provider; and
route a message from the first cloud service provider to a second cloud service provider over the logical interface according to the first VRT, wherein the first cloud service provider and the second cloud service provider are identified in the first VRT, and the message includes a header indicating that the second cloud service provider is to receive the message, wherein the header includes an identifier for the first VLAN.