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To enable more control over cloud operations, users can create virtual machine action plans to run tasks for virtual machines and Docker workloads. Virtual machine action plans are for both private and public cloud and are an important autoscaling functionality on the platform. A VM can have mutliple action plans
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- Open the Control tab of the virtual appliance and click the + button
- Enter the action plan details
- Add actions
- To add an action, click the + button
- Select the action type from the pulldown list
- Enter parameters as required
Put the actions in run order using the arrow buttons
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. Delete actions as required using the trash can button
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Notes:
The constraints on actions are
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as follows:
- Optional maintenance Maintenance block
: You can create one complete maintenance block (start maintenance, action(s), and stop maintenance) The and the maintenance block cannot contain any scaling actions - Scale in and/or scale out action
actions: You can only scale in and/or scale out at the end of the action plan You but you can create the scaling action(s) in any order (e.g. scale in first, only scale in) - Email actions
: You can perform an email action at any time, including after scaling actions - Abiquo constraints apply, for Platform contstraints: For example, to create an instance, the VM must be deployed and powered off. off
- Hypervisor constraints apply, for : For example, when using hot reconfigure on ESXi, you cannot decrement CPU or RAM
- For some actions you must enter parameters
- Abiquo will create events when actions are performed.
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When you have added some actions and saved the action plan, you can run the action plan immediately .To do this, edit to test it. Edit the action plan and click the Execute action plan button, which is beside the + add button to create a new action.
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Manually running Abiquo recommends that you run an action plan can help you manually to test it before you create a schedule trigger to run it automatically.
Create a trigger
Abiquo supports two types of triggers to run action plans: Alerts and Schedules.
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To run your action plan based on monitoring metrics, you can select an existing virtual appliance alert to trigger an Action plan. For details about creating an alert, see Manage Monitoring Alerts
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To run your action plan automatically at selected dates and times, create a schedule trigger.
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