Patent ID: 9513943
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: fetching, by a switch, virtual machine (VM) information for one or more VMs from a virtual station interface (VSI) database (DB), wherein the VM information includes a VSI type identification (ID) associated with each VM; associating, by the switch, a policy discriminator (PD) value for each VSI type ID; generating, by the switch, a VSI DB table with at least a portion of the VM information from the VSI DB and the PD for each VSI type ID; receiving, by the switch, a message including VM information for a created VM; retrieving, by the switch, one or more rules and bandwidth filter information associated with a VSI type ID from the VSI DB table; and applying, by the switch, the associated one or more rules and filter information based on one of multiple PD types and VM information or network information, wherein the multiple PD types comprise a VM type and a virtual local area network (vLAN) type.