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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bryan W. Tuttle, Newcastle, WA (US);
Carlos Jose Cela, Seattle, WA (US);
Ho-Yuen Chau, Bellevue, WA (US);
Melur K. Raghuraman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Saurabh M. Kulkarni, Redmond, WA (US);
Yimin Deng, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A bare metal resource includes a trusted portion and an untrusted portion. The trusted portion includes trusted hardware, an image repository, and a clearance manager. The clearance manager is executable during bootup of the bare metal resource to perform a clearance process on the untrusted portion, including deleting the BIOS in the untrusted portion and loading a trusted BIOS from the image repository on the untrusted hardware, to place the untrusted portion in a trusted state. The bare metal resource may be provisioned to a tenant of a cloud provider after being placed in the trusted state.