configuration snapshot 124 the system administrator may use the ui to customize e g change add or subtract one or more configuration attributes within the configuration snapshot 124 in another embodiment the system administrator may also change add or subtract information regarding an operating system and or one or more software applications to be installed on the one or more hardware computers 112 for example the system administrator may modify the configuration snapshot 124 to indicate a different operating system and or one or more additional software applications in another embodiment the system administrator may use the ui to specify a server e g the computer 108 in the data center 102 to clone similarly one or more hardware servers for example the one or more hardware computers 112 to be provisioned may be identified by the system administrator through the ui in one embodiment the ui may be a graphical user interface gui that provides a graphical view of the data center 102 and or the computer resources 110 the system administrator may select the server to clone from such a graphical view in another embodiment the interface module 120 creates a ui that is a command line interface through which the system.