Patent ID: 8780923

Claim:
A system for managing information traffic through a network, the network having plural devices, the system comprising: an application traffic configuration table stored on a switch and having application network parameters associated with an application; a network parameters module executing on the switch and operable to communicate the application network parameters through to one or more devices of the network; an application traffic manager executing on a device of the network and operable to receive the application network parameters, identify the associated application and configure the application to tag Ethernet packets having information traffic of the application according to the application network parameters; and a virtual machine manager application executing on a device of the network, the virtual machine manager application operable to coordinate tagging of all Ethernet packets associated with the virtual machine manager application according to the application network parameters and further operable to migrate virtual machines between network devices, the application network parameters comprising a loss less behavior for virtual machine migration of information associated with the virtual machine manager application.