Patent ID: 9628290
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a first hypervisor, incoming encapsulated traffic sent from a second hypervisor that is targeted for a virtual machine (VM) that has been migrated from the first hypervisor to a third hypervisor; detecting, by the first hypervisor, that target information is not present in the first hypervisor; and indicating, by the first hypervisor, to a service that the target information is incorrect in the incoming encapsulated traffic for the VM for causing notification of correct target information that is updated for the VM, the indication including first hypervisor virtual switch (vSwitch) information that is derived from an incoming encapsulated traffic and the correct target information, wherein the first hypervisor notifies the service with the updated target information for the VM causing the service to send the updated target information to the second hypervisor prior to a request from the second hypervisor to the service to forward the updated target information.