Patent ID: 8301643

Claim:
A computer program product for creation of highly available pseudo-clone standby servers for rapid failover provisioning comprising: a computer readable memory device suitable for storage of program instructions; first program instructions to evaluate a plurality of configurations for a plurality of targeted computing systems, each of the configurations being a list of installed hardware components and installed software components for a specific targeted computing system, the plurality of configurations having at least two different configurations; second program instructions to, responsive to the evaluating program instructions, determine a subset of components in common among the different configurations, the subset being less than but not all of the installed hardware components and installed software components of any of the targeted computing systems; third program instructions to determine an initial pseudo-clone configuration including the subset of components and excluding components which are not in common among the different target hardware configurations; fourth program instructions to, for each of the plurality of targeted computing systems, produce a finish-out workflow of installation steps and components to be installed into an incompletely configured computer system according to the pseudo-clone configuration to produce an operational clone system; and fifth program instructions to output the pseudo-clone configuration and the finish-out workflow to a provisioning management system for subsequent realization of a pseudo-clone backup computing system and further subsequent realization of one or more operational clone systems; wherein the first, second, third, fourth and fifth program instructions are stored by the computer readable memory device.