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

Claim 0:
1. A method for provisioning a new virtual machine (VM) for accommodating a cloud resource demand, the method comprising:
receiving a request for the new VM to be added to existing VMs;
analyzing metadata of software running on the existing VMs;
based on said analyzing, identifying a first label specifying a software image of an operating system (OS) being executed by the existing VMs and a software update installed on the existing VMs;
determining that the first label used to create the existing VMs is unavailable in a label database;
based on said determining, locating in the 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 of the OS specified in the first label; and
provisioning the new VM with the second label located from the label database.