SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TENANT MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150089066A1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Meswani, Mitesh, Islam, Nazrul, Mordani, Rajiv, West, Jeffrey, Zhdanov, Andriy
• Granted Patent: US 10,122,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/504 Resource capping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5045 Making service definitions prior to deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/741 Holding a request until resources become available
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/745 Reaction in network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/78 Architectures of resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing tenant management in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a tenant manager component enables configuration and management of tenants that utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, including accessing information in a tenant store repository describing a plurality of tenants, and providing administrative isolation between the plurality of tenants. The tenant manager enables receiving administrative commands to configure or manage particular ones of the plurality of tenants, and applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants associated with the received administrative commands, for use in configuring or managing use by those tenants of the services and resources within the cloud environment.

Claims

1. A system for providing tenant management in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

a computer, including a cloud environment executing thereon that supports provisioning of enterprise applications; and

a tenant manager component, which enables configuration and management of tenants that utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, including

accessing information in a tenant store repository describing a plurality of tenants, and

providing administrative isolation between the plurality of tenants, that enables

receiving administrative commands to configure or manage particular ones of the plurality of tenants, and

applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants associated with the received administrative commands, for use in configuring or managing use by those tenants of the services and resources within the cloud environment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each tenant can be associated with a service environment within which services can deployed for use by that tenant.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the tenants include one or more subtenants, wherein the subtenants can be configured and managed by the tenant manager component.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the tenant manager maintains a hierarchy of tenants and subtenants, which is used in applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants or subtenants associated with the received commands.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein each tenant or subtenant can be associated with multiple administrator or user accounts, as defined by an identity store accessed by the tenant manager.

6. A method of providing tenant management in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;

providing a tenant manager component, which enables configuration and management of tenants that utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, including

accessing information in a tenant store repository describing a plurality of tenants, and

providing administrative isolation between the plurality of tenants, that enables

receiving administrative commands to configure or manage particular ones of the plurality of tenants, and

applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants associated with the received administrative commands, for use in configuring or managing use by those tenants of the services and resources within the cloud environment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein each tenant can be associated with a service environment within which services can deployed for use by that tenant.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein one or more of the tenants include one or more subtenants, wherein the subtenants can be configured and managed by the tenant manager component.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the tenant manager maintains a hierarchy of tenants and subtenants, which is used in applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants or subtenants associated with the received commands.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein each tenant or subtenant can be associated with multiple administrator or user accounts, as defined by an identity store accessed by the tenant manager.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;

providing a tenant manager component, which enables configuration and management of tenants that utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, including

accessing information in a tenant store repository describing a plurality of tenants, and

providing administrative isolation between the plurality of tenants, that enables

receiving administrative commands to configure or manage particular ones of the plurality of tenants, and

applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants associated with the received administrative commands, for use in configuring or managing use by those tenants of the services and resources within the cloud environment.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein each tenant can be associated with a service environment within which services can deployed for use by that tenant.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein one or more of the tenants include one or more subtenants, wherein the subtenants can be configured and managed by the tenant manager component.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the tenant manager maintains a hierarchy of tenants and subtenants, which is used in applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants or subtenants associated with the received commands.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein each tenant or subtenant can be associated with multiple administrator or user accounts, as defined by an identity store accessed by the tenant manager.