Patent ID: 8655997

Claim:
A method comprising providing an automatic hierarchical management of a computing infrastructure for at least one domain for an entity, said step of providing hierarchical management comprising: obtaining a hierarchical representation of said at least one domain, wherein the at least one domain comprises a plurality of sub-domains and said hierarchical representation including: a list of computing environments to be managed, at least one policy controlling acquisition of at least one resource from resource libraries for said at least one domain, and the plurality of sub-domains the at least one policy for controlling the number of reserve resources available to process requests from the at least one domain and the sub-domains, the resources and reserve resources comprising a reserve pool of resources pre-allocated for handling requests for the at least one sub-domain and a free pool of resources for handling requests for any of the plurality of sub-domains; receiving at least one request for resources from said at least one sub-domain, wherein the at least one request includes a request for an amount of resources that exceeds an available amount of resources in the reserve pool and the free pool; and accepting the at least one request based on an expectation that additional resources will be acquired in time for allocation, wherein at least one of the allocated resources is not available at a time of the reservation is made.