Inventors:
- Palo Alto CA, US
Allwyn M. SEQUEIRA - Saratoga CA, US
Serge MASKALIK - Los Gatos CA, US
Debashis BASAK - Saratoga CA, US
Mark Bryan WHIPPLE - Cupertino CA, US
International Classification:
H04L 12/24
Abstract:
A method of deploying a network service across multiple data centers, each having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a first tenant among a plurality of tenants, includes maintaining for each data center static inventory data that indicate virtual infrastructure resources that are available thereat to the first tenant, identifying, in response to a network service request for the first tenant, a virtual network function associated with the network service, generating commands to deploy the virtual network function based on a descriptor of the virtual network function, selecting one of the data centers in which the virtual network function is to be deployed based on the descriptor of the virtual network function and the static inventory data of each data center, and issuing the commands to the selected data center to deploy the virtual network function.