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Michael Pohlmann

Alex Gruener

Martin Hirtle

Peter Jaeger

Ralf Lindenlaub

Abhik Bose

Tim Bussiek

Ronald De Vries

Richard Bothe

Kiril Kirov

Various embodiments herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software for building and transporting centrally configured and modified software systems. Such embodiments provide for a virtual appliance to be configured and customized prior to transport of the virtual appliance to the target organization. Once configured and customized, the software system of the virtual appliance is reassembled into a virtual appliance, transported, and rapidly deployed in a form as needed by the organization. This results in significant cost, time, and risk exposure mitigation.

Building and transporting centrally modified software systems

Various embodiments here in provide systems, methods, and software for virtual appliance integration with cloud management software. Some embodiments include a landscape virtualization management application through which software systems in the form of virtual appliances may generated and deployed. Further, metadata included in a data structure of a virtual appliance enable integration with existing cloud management software to allow viewing and searching for available virtual appliances and selecting, deployment, and management thereof.

Virtual appliance integration with cloud management software

A system and method for performing load balancing of systems in a multi-tenancy computing environment by shifting tenants from an overloaded system to a non-overloaded system. Initially, a determination is made as to whether a first tenant desires an access to an instance of a software application. The same instance of the software application is being accessed by other tenants of a first system. If the tenant desires access to the same instance of the software application, the tenant is created at the first system. The created first tenant and the other tenants exist in a multi-tenancy computing environment that enables the first tenant and the other tenants to access a same instance of a software application. Then, it is checked whether the first system is overloaded. If the first system is overloaded, load balancing is performed as follows. The first tenant is exported from the overloaded first system to a lesser loaded second system. The data containers of the first tenant remain stationary at a virtual storage. The first tenant is enabled to access the same instance of the software application that it was accessing while at the first system, but now using memory resources and processing resources of the second system. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Tenant virtualization controller for exporting tenant without shifting location of tenant data in a multi-tenancy environment

A computer implemented method may include installing a software appliance on a first computer system, the software appliance including database software and a business application. The software appliance may be configured on the first computer system to a predetermined configuration of the business application and the database software. The configured software appliance may be detached from an operating system of the first computing device. The detaching of the software appliance may include collecting metadata associated with the software appliance, the operating system and hardware the first system. The detached software appliance and the metadata may be stored on computer readable medium.

Methods and systems for building a software appliance

Various embodiments provide mechanisms that mitigate organizational exposures when evaluating and choosing computer applications, enhancements, and modifications thereto. Some embodiments provide technological solutions that allow for rapid application prototyping, deployment, evaluation, testing, and the act of going live in a production environment. Some such embodiments provide applications including content and data, in the form of virtual appliance templates, that is pre-installed, pre-configured, pre-tested, and pre-loaded in a very rapid manner. Some embodiments may further allow for cloning of the instantiated application to another virtual computing environment, and utilization from that location on forward looking basis.

Deploying a user-configured virtual appliance template including a portion of an existing computing application to enhance functionality

Various embodiments here in provide systems, methods, and software for integrated management of centrally modified software systems. Some embodiments include a landscape virtualization management application through which software systems in the form of virtual appliances may be selected, deployed, and started. The virtual appliance in such embodiments may have been transported to an implementing organization, encapsulated in a virtual appliance, in a preconfigured and pre-modified form.

Integrated deployment of centrally modified software systems

Systems and methods of installing a software appliance via a computer network are shown and described. Such a method may include detaching, by at least one processing circuit, the software appliance from an operating system of a computing device. The method may further include establishing a network connection with a virtual server in a cloud computer system. The method may also include attaching the software appliance to an operating system of the virtual server of the cloud computer system.

Software appliance installation systems and methods

In one aspect, a universal storage manager in a multi-tenant computing system receives at least one message requesting a change to a storage infrastructure of the multi-tenant computing system. Thereafter, the universal storage manager associates the requested change with one of a plurality of operations changing the storage infrastructure. Once this association is made, the universal storage manager initiates the associated operation to change the storage infrastructure. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

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Michael Pohlmann