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Learn how you can use Abiquo’s control features, such as cloud bursting, and be able to meet peaks in demand for resources by automatically deploying new resources in any part of your hybrid cloud! |
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. Abiquo 4.4 has a new Control view where you can manage Alerts and Action plans.
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To scale out a VM, define a scaling group for the base VM. The base VM can be deployed or undeployed.
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To display the metrics of the VMs and scaling groups in a virtual appliance, go to the Monitoring tab.
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Create alarms for metrics across the cloud
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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.
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Create alerts to notify and trigger action plans
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After you save an action plan, you can add an alert to trigger the plan or create a schedule to run it.
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