Patent ID: 11868793
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A method comprising:
receiving, from a tenant of first host machine and a second host machine in a data center, a first preference for a cloud update for the data center, the first host machine and the second host machine each hosting one or more virtual machines of the tenant and being subject to update constraints;
determining the first preference violates the update constraints;
in response to notifying the tenant that the first preference violates the update constraints, receiving a second preference from the tenant, wherein the second preference is a substitute for the first preference;
creating, based on the second preference, a schedule that specifies an order and an update time range that the first host machine and the second host machine will be taken offline when the cloud update is performed, wherein the schedule prevents the first host machine from being offline while the second host machine is offline; and
performing the cloud update in accordance with the schedule.