US Patent Issued to VMware on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for virtual machine migration during controller outages" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,391, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for virtual machine migration during controller outages" was invented by Chidambareswaran Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Subin Cyriac Mathew (San Jose, Calif.) and Li Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for migrating a virtual machine (VM) from a first host computer to a second host computer in a software-defined network (SDN) when a set of controllers of the SDN, that configures several forwarding elements in the SDN to implement one LFE, is unavailable. The second host receives information...