Method and apparatus for provisioning a virtual machine (VM) from a network service provider

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9509626-B2
Application number	US-201314056628-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2013
Priority date	Oct 17, 2013
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

A method and apparatus facilitates an enterprise to lease virtual appliances from network services provider. The method operates by deploying a converged networking and computing device at a service location, downloading a virtual machine to the converged networking and computing device, activating the virtual machine by a service in the wide area network, and connecting the virtual machine to a provisioned network path over the wide area network. Different virtual machines can be deployed to different locations. The same virtual machine can be deployed to different locations. Moreover, more than one virtual machine may be deployed to more than one service location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for deployment by a wide area service provider of one or more virtual machines via a wide area network, comprising:
deploying a converged networking and computing device at a service location with a provisioned network path in the wide area network;
downloading a virtual machine to the converged networking and computing device over a temporary network path reconfigured from the provisioned network path over the wide area network, wherein the tempo…

Assignees

• Ciena Corp

Inventors

• Adolph Stephen Kieran
• Gazier Michael Alain
• Duncan Ian Hamish
• Frodsham James Andrew
• Fluet Denis

Classifications

• G06F8/63

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2009/45562

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45558

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/18

  Electricity · mapped topic