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System and method for quota management in a cloud platform environment

  • US 10,110,506 B2
  • Filed: 09/03/2014
  • Issued: 10/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for management of quota in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

  • a computer, including one or more processors, and a cloud environment executing thereon that supports provisioning of enterprise applications as services, for use by tenants of the cloud environment, includingproviding a plurality of service definition packages including, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that contains information required for a particular service type to be offered by the cloud environment, and wherein the service definition package is installable to the cloud environment, to enable the cloud environment to provide the particular service type,providing a plurality of service management engines including, for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that is associated with the service type and enables provisioning and management of service instances of its associated service type, andinstantiating one or more of the plurality of service types as one or more service instances, for use by one or more tenants of the cloud environment, wherein the one or more service instances use resources of the cloud environment;

    wherein the one or more tenants, in utilizing the one or more service instances, utilize services and resources of the cloud environment, and wherein the one or more tenants are associated with quotas restricting their usage of the services and resources of the cloud environment;

    a tenant manager that associates the quotas with the one or more tenants; and

    an elasticity manager, that determines an amount of usage of the services and resources of the cloud environment, by the one or more service instances provisioned and managed by the service management engines and associated with the one or more tenants, and provides usage information to the tenant manager, for use in managing consumption of the services and resources by the one or more tenants in accordance with their associated quotas.

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