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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Define a scaling group

Users may wish to automate the response to resource demands of their applications and increment resources or VMs using action plans and scaling groups.

  1. Create a VM and enable metrics
  2. Create a scaling group for the VM with scaling rules and click Add
  3. If the scaling group is in maintenance mode, disable maintenance mode

After When the User defines a scaling group, the platform will ensure that it contains the minimum number of VMs in the scaling group definition. To scale out or scale in automatically, the user can automatically create an they can automatically define a scaling action. The platform will automatically create the appropriate alarms, alerts, and action plan with scaling actions.

An action plan allows the user Users can also create action plans to define a sequence of actions to perform general actions, or actions on a VM, or a scaling group. Users can scale up a VM by at a scheduled time. Examples of actions are adding more resources to a VM, perform deploy, and power actions. To add , as well as adding more VMs to a scaling group, or scale scaling in to retire VMs, users can add a scale out or scale in action

Screenshot: An action plan


After the User saves the action plan, they add Users can run action plans automatically based on schedules or alerts to run the action plan automatically.

Screenshot: Creating an Interval schedule for running an action plan. An Advanced schedule is a calendar schedule, as shown below the Interval schedule

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