Patent ID: 9712463
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for data traffic optimization within a virtual environment, the method comprising: retrieving a list of a plurality of virtual machine workloads; receiving a selection to optimize data traffic from at least one virtual machine from the retrieved list of the plurality of virtual machine workloads; instructing a virtual switch in a hypervisor associated with the selected at least one virtual machine to redirect one or more data packets directed to or from a first address associated with the selected at least one virtual machine to a second address associated with a first data optimization virtual machine; receiving, at the first data optimization virtual machine, the one or more data packets redirected by the virtual switch; determining whether a second data optimization virtual machine is present at a destination site for the one or more data packets; if the second data optimization virtual machine is present at the destination site for the one or more data packets: transmitting the one or more data packets to a destination address if no second data optimization virtual machine is present at the destination site.