US Patent Issued to VMware on March 24 for "High-availability egress access with consistent source IP addresses for workloads" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,499, issued on March 24, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"High-availability egress access with consistent source IP addresses for workloads" was invented by Quan Tian (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Donghai Han (Beijing), Shuyang Xin (Shanghai) and Wenqi Qiu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring an egress node for an egress pod set comprising one or more pods are provided. The egress pod set may be allocated one or more egress internet protocol (IP) addresses. The egress node may be selected among nodes of a cluster including the one or more pods. The egress node...