Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vipins Gopinadhan

Marwan E Jubran

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gershaft

Vitalii Tsybulnyk

Jason Matthew Cahill

Alexander Hopmann

Balinder Malhi

Marc Keith Windle

Jonathan M Luk

Erick Raymundo Lerma

Zach Rosenfield

Doron Bar-Caspi

Michelle Lee Dauphiny

David Paul Harris Gorbet

Ricardo Prates De Oliveira

Joshua Calvin Jenkins

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for automated standalone bootstrapping of hardware inventory that includes a provisioning workflow of discovering, validating, and configuring hardware inventory. In an exemplary embodiment, an in-rack computing device, such as a chassis manager or selected blade, initializes an intra-rack communication network with a hardware inventory of the rack. The in-rack computing device initiates intra-rack communication with the hardware inventory in the rack, using the intra-rack communication network, to discover at least a set of computing units in a hardware inventory. Intra-rack communications that include traffic received from the set of computing units. The in-rack computing device validates operational configurations of the hardware inventory based on comparing expected operational configuration parameters with actual operational configuration parameters, at least a portion of the operational configuration parameters retrieved from the information carried within the traffic received from the set of computing units.

Automated standalone bootstrapping of hardware inventory

A cloud manager assists in deploying and managing networks for an online service. The cloud manager system receives requests to perform operations relating to configuring, updating and performing tasks in networks that are used in providing the online service. The management of the assets may comprise deploying machines, updating machines, removing machines, performing configuration changes on servers, Virtual Machines (VMs), as well as performing other tasks relating to the management. The cloud manager is configured to receive requests through an idempotent and asynchronous application programming interface (API) that can not rely on a reliable network.

Managing networks and machines for an online service

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