SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PARTITION FILE SYSTEM IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT

• US 20160092278A1
• Filed: 09/25/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: QUINN, TIMOTHY, MORDANI, RAJIV, DI POL, JOSEPH, ISLAM, NAZRUL, SEVO-ZENZEROVIC, SNJEZANA
• Granted Patent: US 9,747,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/786 Mapping reservation between domains

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a partition file system in a multitenant application server environment. The system enables application server components to work with partition-specific files for a given partition, instead of or in addition to domain-wide counterpart files. The system also allows the location of some or all of a partition-specific storage to be specified by higher levels of the software stack. In accordance with an embodiment, also described herein is a system and method for resource overriding in a multitenant application server environment, which provides a means for administrators to customize, at a resource group level, resources that are defined in a resource group template referenced by a partition, and to override resource definitions for particular partitions.

Claims

1. A system for supporting partition file systems in a multitenant application server environment, comprising one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, together with

a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment,

one or more resource group templates, which define groupings of deployable resources within a domain, and

one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, that can be associated with a tenant;

and

a partition-specific file system or other storage for use by a specific partition.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each partition is associated with its own partition-specific file system or other storage.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the location of some or all of the partition-specific storage might be specified by higher levels in the software stack.

4. A method for supporting partition file systems in a multitenant application server environment, comprising:

providing, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon,

a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment,

one or more resource group templates, which define groupings of deployable resources within a domain, and

one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain that can be associated with a tenant; and

providing a partition-specific file system or other storage for use by a specific partition.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each partition is associated with its own partition-specific file system or other storage.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the location of some or all of the partition-specific storage might be specified by higher levels in the software stack.

7. 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 an application server environment, together with

a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment,

one or more resource group templates, which define groupings of deployable resources within a domain, and

one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain that can be associated with a tenant; and

providing a partition-specific file system or other storage for use by a specific partition.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein each partition is associated with its own partition-specific file system or other storage.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the location of some or all of the partition-specific storage might be specified by higher levels in the software stack.