Patent ID: 8271644

Claim:
A method of managing information handling system resources, the method comprising: monitoring a proportion of an information handling system resource used by a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine is accessible to a thin client information handling system via a communications broker; sending first data to the communications broker, the first data indicating the proportion of the information handling system resource used by the virtual machine; receiving second data from the communications broker, the second data indicating that a different amount of the of information handling system resource is to be allocated to the virtual machine; automatically allocating the different amount of, but not none of, the information handling system resource to the virtual machine in response to the second data; and when the second data indicates that a greater amount of the information handling system resource is to be allocated to the virtual machine, determining whether more of the information handling system resource is available at a server, wherein the virtual machine is accessible to the thin client information handling system via the server.