Patent ID: 11941125
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A computer-storage memory device embodied with executable operations that, when executed by a processor, are configured to perform operations for provisioning a new virtual machine (VM) for accommodating a cloud resource demand, comprising:
receiving a request for the new VM to be added to existing VMs;
analyzing metadata of software running on the existing VMs;
identifying a first label specifying a software image being executed by the existing VMs and a software update installed on the existing VMs;
determining a path to the first label used to create the existing VMs is broken;
incident to the determination that the path to the first label is broken, locating in a label database, without user intervention, a second label that is stored in the label database, the second label comprising at least part of the software update installed on the existing VMs, the second label including the software image specified in the first label; and
provisioning the new VM with the second label.