Method And Apparatus For Providing Tenant Redundancy

摘要

Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus for providing a tenant redundancy architecture that does not require reserving a complete set of duplicate resources, pushing complexity into the application domain or require the application to communicate simultaneously with two active tenant instances. In particular, a shadow tenant is created that has the functionality of the service tenant but is hidden from the rest of the network until activated.

主权项

1. An apparatus for providing tenant redundancy, the apparatus comprising:
a data storage; and a processor communicatively connected to the data storage, the processor being configured to:
create a service providing tenant instance, the service providing tenant instance being configured to:
communicatively connect to a network providing a network service; andprovide a cloud element service associated with the network service;create a shadow tenant instance, the shadow tenant instance being configured to:
be communicatively hidden from the network; andprovide the cloud element service associated with the network service;determine an indication of a switch-over event; andswitch over handling of the cloud element service from the service providing tenant instance to the shadow tenant instance based on the switch-over event.