Patent ID: 9350558
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An information handling system comprising: a first hypervisor running on a first host, the first hypervisor managing a first virtual switch also running on the first host; a second hypervisor running on a second host, the second hypervisor managing a second virtual switch also running on the second host; and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), including a first VM running on the first host under control of the first hypervisor, the first VM being part of a first tenant, and a second VM running on the second host under control of the second hypervisor, the second VM being part of a second tenant; and wherein the first virtual switch has a mapping in memory that maps a customer-specific multicast IP address, used by the plurality of VMs to indicate a multicast group, to a global multicast IP address used by the first and second hosts, wherein the multicast group includes VMs in the first and the second tenants.