Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Wakkas Rafiq

Ajay Mani

Sushant Pramod Rewaskar

Christopher Paul Almida

Pavithra Tyamagondlu Nagesharao

Murtuza Rizvi

Akram M H Hassan

Marc Greisen

Aaron Edward Spinks

Sarat Rallapalli

Kai Han

Ahmed Hassan Elsayed El Baz

Kundana Palagiri

Zhidong Peng

Akram MH Hassan

In various embodiments, methods and systems for remotely customizing a virtual machine in a cloud computing infrastructure are provided. A VM agent component provided on a virtual machine, while in communication with a VM deployment service associated therewith, can be configured to detect an incoming configuration payload that corresponds to a selected one or more extension packages cataloged on a VM marketplace component in communication with the VM deployment service component. Employing the configuration payload, the VM agent component can initialize communication with the extension repository to retrieve the one or more extension packages for storage and installation onto the virtual machine. Upon installing the one or more extension packages, the VM agent component can be configured to communicate a status report to the VM deployment service component for provision to an administrator.

Cloud virtual machine customization using extension framework

In various embodiments, methods and systems for coordinating, between a host and a tenant, fault recovery of tenant infrastructure in a distributed system is provided. A fault occurrence is determined for a tenant infrastructure in the distributed system. The fault occurrence may be a software failure or hardware failure of the tenant infrastructure supporting a service application of the tenant. A fault recovery plan is communicated to the tenant to notify the tenant of the fault occurrence and actions taken to restore the tenant infrastructure. It is determined whether a fault recovery plan response is received from the tenant; the fault recovery plan response is an acknowledgement from the tenant of the fault recovery plan. Upon receiving the fault recovery plan response or at the expiration of a predefined time limit, the fault recovery plan is executed to restore the tenant infrastructure.

Coordinating fault recovery in a distributed system

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