Patent ID: 9531643
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. In a networking environment in which a first switch device is in communication with a physical server in a network and a second switch device is a peer of the first switch device and is also in communication with the physical server, a virtual switch hosted by the physical server obtaining a configuration request message to provision virtual network segmentation resources for a virtual machine hosted by the physical server and for which virtual machine traffic is managed by the virtual switch, a method comprising: receiving at the second switch device a first synchronization message that includes information describing the virtual network segmentation resources provisioned for the virtual machine; and receiving at the second switch device a second synchronization message that includes state information indicating that the first switch device is in an active state for servicing the virtual machine and that the second switch device is to be placed in a dormant state for servicing the virtual machine.