Patent ID: 11876643
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. An apparatus comprising:
one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
a processing system operatively coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media that, when executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to:
identify a connection of a virtual machine to a port of a virtual switch on a host;
identify a tenant of a plurality of tenants associated with the virtual machine;
determine whether a tunnel endpoint is allocated to the tenant on the host; and
when a tunnel endpoint is not allocated to the tenant:
initiate a tunnel endpoint on the host for the tenant; and
direct traffic for the virtual machine to the initiated tunnel endpoint; and

when a tunnel endpoint is allocated to the tenant:
direct traffic for the virtual machine to the tunnel endpoint.