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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Patrick Vinograd, Portland, OR (US);
Chris Broadbent, Middleburg, VA (US);
Padraic Russell, Portland, OR (US);
Yonatan Graber, Tel Aviv, IL;
Codanda Chinnappa, Burlington, MA (US);
Rajiv Mordani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Masoud Kalali, Uppsala, SE;
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a system and method for virtual assembly patching in a cloud environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a virtual assembly builder can be used to virtualize installed components in a reference environment, and then deploy those components into another destination environment. A user can capture the configuration and binaries of software components into software appliance artifacts, which can be grouped and their relationships defined as software assembly artifacts. In accordance with an embodiment, assemblies stored as disk images in a repository can be patched by creating replacement images, importing the replacement images into the virtualization environment, and then performing a replacement or swap of an instance's existing virtual disks, with patched versions of those disks.