US Patent 10379911 Open-ended policies for virtual computing instance provisioning

The systems described herein are configured to reduce the number of resource policies created and stored on a cluster for provisioning and/or managing virtual computing instances (VCIs) utilization of one or more resources. An open-ended VCI policy including at least one open-ended rule having an undefined value and a resource is selected. A set of valid values compatible with a selected resource corresponding to each open-ended rule is presented to the user. The user selects a valid value for each open-ended rule from the set of valid values via a user interface (UI). The selected valid values are assigned to each open-ended rule to create a complete VCI open-ended policy. The complete VCI open-ended policy is applied to provision one or more VCIs. The same open-ended VCI policy may be applied to provision different VCIs by assigning a different set of user selected valid values.