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Introduction to autoscaling
Abiquo 4.0 introduces horizontal autoscaling of virtual machines, using the scaling group entity, which is defined for a base virtual machine. When a scale out event or a scale in event is triggered, Abiquo will clone the base virtual machine and deploy, or delete or undeploy virtual machines, according to your scaling rules and policy. To trigger a scaling event, you can create an action plan for the virtual machine with scaling actions, and create scaling triggers that are either monitoring alerts for virtual appliances or schedules for planned scaling.
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