Patent Issued for Fast provisioning of machines using network cloning (USPTO 11716377).

The method of claim 3, wherein based on the retained L2/L3 address mappings for the set of private L2/L3 addresses, the cloned, second set of machines do not have to learn new L2/L3 address mappings. The method of claim 4, wherein the L2/L3 address mappings map L2/L3 addresses to virtual interfaces (VIFs) associated with each machine in the cloned, second set of machines. The set of private L2/L3 addresses are then removed from a network address pool of a DHCP server created for the cloned, second logical network, according to some embodiments. [Extracted from the article]