Patent 10992746 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on April, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
System management services can discover the addition of new physical devices, take automated actions to provision software (operating system and other related cloud services software components) on them, and scale out management infrastructure based on the new capacity of the total resources (including the newly added resources). A configuration file can contain the rules for automatic expansion and contraction of the system.