Patent ID: 9735974
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of processing multicast group membership discovery protocol messages in a data center network comprising a plurality of compute servers, each compute server in the plurality being capable of running one or more virtual machines, the method comprising, at a multicast group membership discovery protocol proxy located on a compute server in the plurality: receiving a multicast group membership discovery protocol report message requesting delivery of data associated with a specified multicast group from a specified multicast data source, wherein the received multicast group membership discovery protocol report message requests delivery of data associated with the specified multicast group from the specified multicast data source to a receiver application in the data center network; determining whether the specified multicast data source is hosted by a virtual machine running on the compute server; and in response to a positive determination, forwarding a request corresponding to the received multicast group membership discovery protocol report message to the virtual machine hosting the specified multicast data source on the compute server, wherein the receiver application is located on a different compute server in the plurality to the compute server running the virtual machine which hosts the specified multicast data source.