Patent US 11,595,232

A fabric for container virtual machines (CM) has cross fabric spine switches coupled to spine switches, each spine switch coupled to has a leaf switches, each leaf switch coupled to servers hosting CVM processes. Each of the leaf switches has an uplink port coupled to a spine switch leaf port configured in a mesh. The spine switches have a plurality of uplink ports for coupling to a plurality of cross fabric spine (CFS) ports into a mesh. The cross fabric spine switches keep a CF-NHCIB table of entries containing capabilities, and also a CF-FIB slice table which maintains entries for assignment of CVMs to new spine switches, such as GTID range, MAC Range, IP range associated with a spine port and spine address (MAC and/or IP) for transferring packets through the fabric.