APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE VIRTUAL SWITCH INSTANCES ON A NETWORK SWITCH
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Aug 17, 2017
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Feb 12, 2016
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Feb 12, 2016
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A network switch to support multiple virtual switch instances comprises a control CPU configured to run a plurality of network switch control stacks, wherein each of the network switch control stacks is configured to manage and control operations of one or more virtual switch instances of a switching logic circuitry of the network switch. The network switch further includes said switching logic circuitry partitioned into a plurality of said virtual switch instances, wherein each of the virtual switch instances is provisioned and controlled by one of the network switch control stacks and is dedicated to serve and route data packets for a specific client of the network switch.
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