Patent ID: 8958420
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a scheduler disposed at a control device of a switch fabric system and configured to be included in a plurality of schedulers, the scheduler configured to receive a control plane request associated with the switch fabric system having a data plane and a control plane separate from the data plane; the scheduler configured to designate a control plane entity based on the control plane request and state information of each control plane entity from a plurality of control plane entities associated with the control plane and instantiated as a virtual machine; the scheduler configured to select a compute device from a plurality of compute devices and not remaining compute devices from the plurality of compute devices based, at least in part, on an affinity attribute value and an anti-affinity attribute value of the control plane entity and of each control plane entity from the plurality of control plane entities; and the scheduler configured to send a signal to the compute device of the switch fabric system in response to the control plane request such that the control plane entity is instantiated as a virtual machine at the compute device.