System and method for resource isolation and consumption in a multitenant application server environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016014038-A1
Application number	US-201514795427-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 9, 2015
Priority date	Jul 10, 2014
Publication date	Jan 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for resource isolation and consumption in an application server environment. The system can provide, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, a plurality of resources which can be used within the application server environment, and one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of a domain. The system can also configure a resource consumption management module to monitor each partition's usage of the plurality of resources. The resource consumption management module can comprise at least one member of the group consisting of resource reservations, resource constraints, and resource notifications.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system for resource isolation and consumption in an application server environment, comprising:
one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, together with
a plurality of resources which can be used within the application server environment,
one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of a domain; and
a configurable resource consumption management module, the configurable resource consumption management module comprising at least one member of the group consisting of resource reservations, resource constraints, and resource notifications; wherein the resource consumption management module is configured to monitor each partition's usage of the plurality of resources.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of resources comprises shared resources, and wherein the resource consumption management module is further configured to receive instructions to configure at least one member of the group consisting of the resource reservations, the resource constraints, and the resource notifications.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the resource constraints are configured to perform a constraint action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the constraint action is selected from the group consisting of slow, fail, and shutdown.

5 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the resource notifications are configured to provide a notification action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

6 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the resource constraints are configured to perform a constraint action upon a partition of the one or more partitions using more than a fair share value of the shared resources, the constraint action comprising a slow-down, wherein the slow-down reduces the fair-share value of the partition of the one or more partitions, and wherein the fair share value is associated with a number of work instances allocated to the partition of the one or more partitions.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the application server environment is a multi-tenant application server environment and each of the one or more partitions can be associated with one of a plurality of pre-defined service levels, each of the plurality of pre-defined service levels configured for use by the resource consumption management module to determine the management of resources by the partitions.

8 . A method for resource isolation and consumption in an application server environment, comprising:
providing, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon,
a plurality of resources which can be used within the application server environment,
one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of a domain; and
configuring a resource consumption management module to monitor each partition's usage of the plurality of resources, the resource consumption management module comprising at least one member of the group consisting of resource reservations, resource constraints, and resource notifications.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of deployable resources comprises shared resources, and wherein the resource consumption management module is further configured to receive instructions to configure at least one member of the group consisting of the resource reservations, the resource constraints, and the resource notifications

10 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
configuring the resource constraints to perform a constraint action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the constraint action is selected from the group consisting of slow, fail, and shutdown.

12 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
configuring the resource notifications to provide a notification action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the notification action pushes a log event file, the log event file being accessible by a system administrator.

14 . The method of claim 8 , wherein each of the one or more partitions can be associated with one of a plurality of pre-defined service levels, each of the plurality of pre-defined service levels configured for use by the resource consumption management module to determine the management of resources by the partitions.

15 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions for resource isolation and consumption in an application server environment 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 one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon,
a plurality of resources which can be used within the application server environment,
one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of a domain; and
configuring a resource consumption management module to monitor each partition's usage of the plurality of resources, the resource consumption management module comprising at least one member of the group consisting of resource reservations, resource constraints, and resource notifications.

16 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of deployable resources comprises shared resources, and wherein the resource consumption management module is further configured to receive instructions to configure at least one member of the group consisting of the resource reservations, the resource constraints, and the resource notifications

17 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16 , the steps comprising:
configuring the resource constraints to perform a constraint action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the constraint action is selected from the group consisting of slow, fail, and shutdown.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16 , the steps further comprising:
configuring the resource notifications to provide a notification action when a partition of the one or more partitions uses more than a pre-defined amount of the shared resources.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the notification action pushes a log event file, the log event file being accessible by a system administrator.

Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Thyagarajan Sivakumar
• Ramu Jagadish
• Saxena Kshitiz
• Srivastava Rahul
• Feigen Lawrence
• Mehta Naman
• Subramanian Prasad

Classifications

• G06F2209/5014

  Reservation · CPC title

• G06F2209/508

  Monitor · CPC title

• G06F9/5077 Primary

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title

• H04L47/70 Primary

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title

• H04L47/83

  based on usage prediction · CPC title