Patent ID: 11882000
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A network management system for managing a logical network that spans a plurality of physical sites, the network management system comprising:
a global network manager for receiving global logical network configuration data for the plurality of physical sites; and
at each of the physical sites:
a set of computing devices, each computing device executing (i) a set of forwarding elements to implement the logical network at the physical site and (ii) a local controller for configuring the set of forwarding elements on the computing device;
a local network manager for receiving a logical network configuration specific to the physical site from the global network manager; and
a set of central controllers for distributing logical network configuration data based on the logical network configuration specific to the physical site received by the global manager to the local controllers that execute on the computing devices at the physical site.