Patent ID: 9350614
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for a network management system to prevent a loss of a network profile for a virtual machine in a network including the network management system, the virtual machine, and a physical switch, the method comprising: detecting and recording, by the network management system, a relationship between the physical switch and the virtual machine when the virtual machine is hosted by a physical host downstream from the physical switch and the network profile for the virtual machine is cached but not saved at the physical switch; after a restart of the physical switch, deploying, from the network management system to the physical switch, the network profile for the virtual machine hosted by the physical host downstream from the physical switch when the recorded relationship stored at the network management system indicates that the network profile has not been saved at the physical switch; after a predefined time, causing, by the network management system, the physical switch to save the network profile for the virtual machine when the recorded relationship indicates that the network profile has not been saved at the physical switch; and after the physical switch has saved the network profile for the virtual machine, deleting the recorded relationship.