VMware, Inc.
REDUCING PACKET DROPS DURING A SWITCH RESTART

Abstract:

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the update of switches in a computing network. In one example, a control service identifies a request to update a first switch and modifies the network configuration of the first switch to divert network traffic to a second switch that provides an alternate path to a path provided by the first switch. After updating the network configuration, the control service monitors the network traffic of the first switch to determine when the traffic has been diverted and initiates the update to the first switch when the traffic is diverted.