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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2012
Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Markus Horstmann, Woodinville, WA (US);
Girish Nagaraja, Kirkland, WA (US);
Clemens Friedrich Vasters, Kirkland, WA (US);
David Wortendyke, Seattle, WA (US);
Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Markus Horstmann, Woodinville, WA (US);
Girish Nagaraja, Kirkland, WA (US);
Clemens Friedrich Vasters, Kirkland, WA (US);
David Wortendyke, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a tenant provisioning system in a multi-tenancy architecture using a single provisioning master in the architecture, and a data center provisioner in each data center in the architecture. The provisioning master receives user requests to provision a tenant of a service and routes such requests to an appropriate data center provisioner. Each service in the multi-tenancy architecture implements a common interface by which the corresponding data center provisioner can obtain a common indication of load from each different service deployed in the data center thus facilitating the selection of a scale unit on which a tenant is provisioned. The common interface also enables a service to dynamically register (i.e. without redeploying the tenant provisioning system) with the provisioning master as a multi-tenancy service by registering an endpoint address with the provisioning master.