Managing hardware reboot and reset in shared environments

A computing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• enable a user to utilize a hardware device by setting configuration information for at least one switch along any communications path between the hardware device and an administrative resource to disable communications between the hardware device and the administrative resource, the hardware device being unable to access the at least one administrative resource to modify configuration information of the hardware device for a duration of a time the user is utilizing the hardware device;
• and
• when the user is finished utilizing the at least one hardware device, enable the communication path between the hardware device and the administrative resource.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:

• provision a customer on a host machine using a provisioning system on a network;
• cause a switch associated with communications between the provisioned host machine and the provisioning system to disable communications between the provisioned host machine and the provisioning system for a duration of a time the customer is utilizing the host machine and while maintaining access to other communication paths of the network;
• and
• cause the switch between the provisioned host machine and the provisioning system to enable communications between the provisioned host machine and the provisioning system after the customer is no longer provisioned on the host machine.