Method and system of managing computing resources

The invention, in one embodiment, is a computing resource management method comprising: establishing a pool of free computing resources in a computing system; selecting a free computing resource from the pool of free computing resources to replace an operating computing resource in the computing system; and configuring the selected free computing resource to operate in the computing system, after replacing the operating computing resource with the free computing resource in the computing system, wherein said free computing resources comprises resources not preconfigured for use in said computing system. In alternative embodiments, the invention pertains to a computing resource management system, and a computer-useable storage media embodying aspects of the computing resource management method.