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Managing capacity in a data center by suspending tenants

  • US 9,497,138 B2
  • Filed: 09/18/2014
  • Issued: 11/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing device for conserving computing resources in a cloud computing system, comprising:

  • a central processing unit;

    a system memory; and

    a mass storage device, the mass storage device having computer-executable instructions which, when loaded into the system memory and executed by the central processing unit, cause the computing device toinitiate at least one administrative computing process for a tenant in the cloud computing system, the tenant associated with one or more users;

    determine that no user of the tenant has used the cloud computing system within a period of time;

    wait for the at least one administrative computing process for the tenant in the cloud computing system to complete;

    suspend the tenant and indicating the tenant as suspended in the cloud computing system, in response to determining that no user of the tenant has used the cloud computing system within the period of time;

    receive a request from a user of the tenant;

    determine that the tenant is suspended; and

    allow the at least one administrative computing process for the tenant to be reinstated.

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