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To help you detect and address changing demand for resources, the platform's control features include monitoring alerts with notifications, action plans for automation, and autoscaling.
Basic control and scaling concepts
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Cloud bursting
Cloud bursting is automatically deploying new resources in any part of your hybrid cloud environment to meet a peak in demand for resources. Here is a brief outline of how to configure cloud bursting with VM automation.
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- To optionally use VPNs between VDCs (see Connect virtual networks with VPNaaS), use networks with different addresses, e.g. the default network and a custom network set as the default, see Manage Networks
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- Remember to enable metrics. See VM monitoring and metrics.
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Define scaling groups for VMs. The base VM can be deployed or undeployed. See Manage Scaling Groups
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Create alarms for built-in metrics, scaling group metrics, or custom metrics. See Custom Metrics Resources. To work with auto-scaling, we recommend that you create alarms for both the high threshold, when you will require more resources, and the low threshold, when these resources can be retired
To create alarms, go to an Alarms tab in either the Virtual datacenters view (see Manage cloud alarms) or the Infrastructure view (see Infrastructure Alarms).
Select an entity, a metric, and a metric statistic and enter a threshold, then save the alarm
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The pages in the Control view section describe how you can use alerts with notifications from alarms across the platform, and action plans for automation of VMs, including vertical and horizontal auto-scaling. |
From the Control view you can monitor, control, and scale groups of VMs in the virtual data center, using alerts with notifications, action plans for automation, and auto-scaling on the hybrid cloud platform.
From Control view you can also manage tags for resource inventories, as well as multicloud budgets, to implement your FinOps system.
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Pages related to control of VMs
Main VM configuration page: Configure
Virtual Machines- Monitoring and Metrics